Intel powers up entry-level workstations with Skylake Xeons
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The Intel CPUs that we recommend in our System Guides may be fine for the average builder, but workstations are a different beast. Those systems have requirements that regular PCs don't, like support for ECC memory, and they usually come along with a Quadro or FirePro graphics card, making integrated graphics redundant. Intel is extending Skylake performance and workstation-friendly feature sets to the lower end of that market today with the Xeon E3-1200 v5 product family.
These quad-core chips all support up to 64GB of DDR3L or DDR4 ECC RAM. The major differences between the various models are clock speeds, integrated graphics, Hyper-Threading support, ...