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Gleb

I guess it depends on the requirements a lot. Are you guys set on using ECC RAM and microATX mobo? It would be much cheaper to use some sort of gaming cpu + DDR4 non-ecc RAM.

For example, microatx mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157...

some non-ecc DDR4 ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231...

and a cpu: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117...

For a use like this EEC RAM is worth the money.

Alright, even with ECC and much faster DDR4 ram: http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/ct16g4rfd4213

and motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157...

You might have missed the fact that the motherboard they use has built-in dual 10G Ethernet: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9S...

Once you account for the cost of a 10G NIC and the fact that having it integrated frees up another expansion slot, I'd say it's a pretty good deal.

Also, I'm not sure if there are any non-Xeon processors that support ECC.

An extreme example of a non-Xeon that supports ECC: Atom C2750 :)

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