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Michael Stum
Asked: 2017-04-10 07:38:04 +0800 CST

Do Kaby Lake Pentiums support ECC?

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Looking at setting up a SOHO server with a C236 Chipset and ECC RAM and wondering about the CPU to use.

Skylake Pentiums (e.g., the G4400) support ECC, but prior to Kaby Lake's release, news outlets reported that ECC support was removed.

Looking at Intel's ARK for e.g., the Pentium G4600, ECC is listed as supported, but ARK has been wrong before.

Does anyone know for sure if the Kaby Lake Pentiums support ECC RAM?

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  1. After researching this for a while, I can't come to any concrete conclusions, but I can make some strong inferences.

    The techreport article you link to seems to be the only place reporting the lack of ECC ram. Everything else that I can find that references it, stems back to that article. But that article is unsourced and as far as I can tell, unverified.

    I would believe ARK over an article of unknown journalistic quality.

    All that said and done, ask yourself "Do I really need ECC for a home server?" - take for example this 2015 article from our co-founder and former overlord. I don't always agree with all of the server/hardware decisions Jeff has made/posted in the past, but I can't deny that in this case he seems to have done some pretty thorough homework.

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