Or he could have waited a few months and gotten ECC anyway: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ark.intel.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;88171&#x2F;Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1280-v5-8M-Cache-3_70-GHz" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ark.intel.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;88171&#x2F;Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-...</a>