The i7-920 is almost five years old at this point and only clocks a 5k on passmark. Very strange offering.
That being said, I'm sure the 4770 is great for Minecraft or as a testing server (lack of ECC ram makes them a bad idea for serious use).
That being said, I'm sure the 4770 is great for Minecraft or as a testing server (lack of ECC ram makes them a bad idea for serious use).
Or they just quickly whipped up some consumer-grade Haswell servers to offer while working on more reliable offerings of the higher end segments.
Hetzner usually discards their old servers on their server bidding robot [1], I'm surprised these 920's haven't been moved there yet.
http://serverfault.com/questions/433221/does-amazon-ec2-and-...
>AWS does not comment on this question. The general consensus (based on seeing this question asked on SO, HackerNews, Reddit and so on) is that, unless AWS specifically tells you the instance type is running ECC memory, you should assume it is not.
>Although unscientific and inconclusive I suppose this makes sense - ECC is a selling point, and the fact that AWS does not plaster "all our instances run ECC" on their info pages certainly suggests that they are not.
Some Opterons require EEC, some don't.