Cheapest ECC Platform Purchased New

[John Doe]

Should be a Intel Celeron G1840 + any LGA 1150 mainboard.

Correct?

P.S. Is a 100W power supply enough to drive this + 2 or 4 x 3.5" HDD?

 

[danb35]

Cheapest platform purchased new would probably be a TS140 or a T20, since that gets you mobo, CPU, case, P/S, and some RAM for < $300 US. You'll need to add RAM, and of course drives.

I wouldn't use that small of a power supply for 4x 3.5" drives. Maybe 2x, but even then it sounds pretty weak.

 

[Darren Myers]

I agree the TS140 is a great platform to start, but the PSU is indeed weak for 4 hdds.

 

[DrKK]

"ANY LGA1150 mainboard"?

No. 99.1% of LGA1150 mainboards will not support ECC RAM because of their chipset.

You need a mainboard with a C200 series chipset.

 

[ChriZ]

Not any 1150 motherboard. The motherboard must support ECC - most motherboards don't.

 

[John Doe]

Thanks. How about Skylake? Does H110 support ECC memory?

 

[DrKK]

Thanks. How about Skylake? Does H110 support ECC memory?

There is scant information (i.e., none that I can find) about ECC support on Skylake chipsets. What information is out there indicates that H110 is probably going to be their piece-of-crap chipset, so I doubt that will have it.

I think we have to wait and see. I see nothing at all indicating server chipsets for Skylake at this point. Maybe someone knows more.

 

[John Doe]

Thanks. Will come back later. :)

 

[Ericloewe]

Skylake will be broadly similar to Haswell/Broadwell.

Expect ECC support only with Cxxx chipsets. Non-Xeon ECC support is an unknown at this point, but Xeon E3 v5 will support RDIMMs, so some cost-downs on consumer processors would not be unexpected.

 

[John Doe]

What a pity, so AMD is still the way to go if one is to buy a new ECC platform cheap?

 

[gpsguy]

AMwho? You just stirred up the hornets nest.

As danb35 mentioned earlier, there are some inexpensive entry level servers on the market. For example, if you are in the US, you can pick up a Dell T20 with 4GB of RAM for $165 (USD) - http://www.provantage.com/dell-snp96mctc-8g~7DELL33Y.htm Add another 8GB ECC stick of RAM or two, a couple of drives, and you are off to the races.

 

[Ericloewe]

What a pity, so AMD is still the way to go if one is to buy a new ECC platform cheap?

The price difference is severely overstated, once you ignore bottom of the barrel crap and consider that you need a validated platform.

 

[John Doe]

Thanks everyone. Intel launched the rest of the Skylake today.

"The CM236 chipset will power Xeon based workstation platform with support for ECC memory, Intel vPro, PEG and other necessary features."

Read more: http://wccftech.com/intel-announces...-skylake-h-skylake-s-skylake-u/#ixzz3kYTvKZwG

Edit: I checked out Lenovo TS140 & Dell T20, I think you guys are right, except the chassis is larger than I like, they're probably the way to go. Cheaper than buying everything separately for a beginner's box. I'll wait for the Skylake version.