If it doesn't support ECC, there's no benefit vs the Intel Skull Canyon.
I am in the market for a new dev machine, and I want Xeon and ECC. Just not enough good options currently (unless you build from scratch).
It does support ECC - right there on the product page.
[1] Based on publicly available information of workstation competitors as of October 3, 2016 with volume of at least 1 million units annually as of October 3, 2016 having < 3 litres volume, professional graphics, Intel® Xeon® quad core processor, ISV certified applications, ECC memory.
Personally, I'd wait for the tech specs page to go live before getting too upset about them not posting detailed tech specs.
It's a shame, because you can passively cool things like a i7-6700T these days without much effort and without ever falling into throttling [1]. Plus, Calyos is about to release a loop heat pipe that will be able to cool massive systems without any noise [2].
I wish someone like Apple or perhaps the new Microsoft had the vision to sell corporate desktops and workstations that did not suck noisewise. I imagine a little fanless Mac Mini running on Xeon would sell like hotcakes and would give Apple the chance to gain a further chunk of enterprise marketshare. But they don't seem to be interested.
[1] http://www.atlastsolutions.com/ultimate-fanless-mini-itx-pc-...
Better contact their support for exact specification on the compatible size.
Let the computer be loud there - noise has become a non-issue when selecting parts. It has a gtx1070 GPU which gets quite noisy under load (gpgpu processing). All 'workstations' I had in the past, like from Dell, got quite load under load, and had (baseline) loud power supplies as well.
I do need access to the power button more often than I thought, so I'll have to wire the front panel power button to a button on my desk.