On 2013-11-20, Bryan Vyhmeister <[email protected]> wrote: > You'll have no issues at all. It's a great combination. I tell my > customers and everyone else to just go with an X9SC{L,M} board, an > LGA1155 Pentium, Core i3, or Xeon E3 (if absolutely necessary) and be > done with it. The cheaper Pentium chips and Core i3 support ECC > perfectly and that saves a lot of money that would be wasted on fast > CPUs for minimal workloads.
One thing to note, which may be irrelevant, but may be very important, is which CPUs support AES-NI - the LGA1155 Pentium/i3 don't. http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced/?s=t&SocketsSupported=LGA1155&AESTech=true
