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You don't need to pay through the nose with Intel, at least for latest generation. 10900K costs $499. 10900K with ECC called Xeon W-1290P and costs $539. That's 8% extra. ASUS Pro WS W480-Ace is $280 which is reasonable cost for a good motherboard.

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I picked up a i3-9100 a few months back because its was a low cost processor with ECC (for an edge/embedded solution). The problem then becomes the motherboard, and it seems intel has just shifted the ECC tax from the processor to the motherboard/chipset. That core fits on a lot of low cost motherboards, but to enable ECC requires about another $100 chipset tax.

How do you discover which Xeon is the i7 version of the same chip or vice versa? Is it just spelunking through Intel Ark to find a same generation, clock speeds Xeon or is there more to it?

Something like that, yes. Specs are almost identical. There are CPU families so I picked best models from a family and compared them.

Would be interesting to compare die shots.

Any of the Xeon Ws are just rebranded i7s, others might be as well. You can tell because they have the DMI memory bus instead of the Xeon exclusive UPI interconnect.

I was with you until the mobo cost. Wtf, $280 for a mobo?? A totally decent B550 mobo with ECC support can be had for less than half that price.

The only advantage of Intel Xeon at this point is RDIMM/LR-DIMM support on their Xeon-W platform. AMD supports that only on Epyc and Threadripper Pro.

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