Supermicro MBD-X10SL7 and i5

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etherlore

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Reading the specs it looks like this supports xeons, celerons, pentiums and i3. Why wouldn't it support an i5? Is that correct? I have an old i5 lying around, so it would be great to use that.
 
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Evan

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Because it's a board for ECC memory only and i5 does not support ECC, it's supported on i3 as a low end CPU for storage appliances etc.

Some may say odd market segregation by intel but just the way it is.
 
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poutnik

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It may depend on the board and it's firmware and also on the specific i5 procesor. In a different forum regarding the HP ProLiant Microserver G8, there are stories of i5-3470T and i5-2390T working well in the server with ECC memories. It is supposed that only the T variants of i5 processors work with ECC, and not even all of them.
 
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