that 2-3% isn't much ,even if its even that much at all, but if u bought it miine as well us it ya know... it did cost u more right? haven't check prices on ecc in a long while.. since i had a ppro ...

I am planning to assemble another NAS with some spare hardware that's been floating around. CPU is a Haswell Xeon 2697V3, board will be an X99 (likely a Gigabyte X99-UD4P, am intending to purchase ...