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That line doesn't support ECC though, so it's a pretty poor choice for a production workstation. And the LGA2066 platform has power delivery and thermal issues [1], likely due to the launch getting pushed up and mainboard vendors not having enough time to get things right. Gaming customers can tolerate a bit of flakiness from their systems, but Intel's enterprise (i.e., Xeon) customers will scream bloody murder if Skylake-SP launches in anywhere near as bad a state as Skylake-X did.

[1]: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/-intel-skylake-x-overclo...



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