Posted March 07, 2017
Not much AMD can do if 3rd party vendors refuse to have ECC support on their motherboards, the CPU itself supports it and that is all that AMD can guarantee. Presumably the Naples (Ryzen for servers/ workstations) motherboards will have ECC support though, they're the direct competitors to Xeon and it would be extremely odd- and probably fatal, market wise- if they didn't.
Think I will very likely end up getting a plain 1700, though I'll wait for 1600/x to see how they turn out and if the foibles with the r7s get ironed out. 7700k is the better option for games but it will only get worse relatively speaking (plus its socket is likely dead pretty soon), and an equivalent Broadwell-E would be near twice the cost and almost certainly is on a dead socket. Since I want something that will last it's a pretty easy choice.
IIRC you can still put in a W7 key when installing W10, and it will work- the only thing that doesn't any more is the automatic upgrade path. Which a lot of people absolutely hated anyway.
Think I will very likely end up getting a plain 1700, though I'll wait for 1600/x to see how they turn out and if the foibles with the r7s get ironed out. 7700k is the better option for games but it will only get worse relatively speaking (plus its socket is likely dead pretty soon), and an equivalent Broadwell-E would be near twice the cost and almost certainly is on a dead socket. Since I want something that will last it's a pretty easy choice.
IIRC you can still put in a W7 key when installing W10, and it will work- the only thing that doesn't any more is the automatic upgrade path. Which a lot of people absolutely hated anyway.