Comment by gh02t
9 years ago
It's significantly more expensive, usually around 30-100% more, depending on capacity. IMO not worth it on a desktop, possibly worth it on a home server or a serious workstation. Plus your CPU and motherboard has to support it, which is a pain with Intel's consumer lineup.
Good thing ryzen supports ECC OBO. Just waiting on motherboard support for it.
Lots of Ryzen motherboards support ECC.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X370%20Killer%20SLIac/#Specific...
I think I may go AMD (again) for this very reason.
(Generally, I don't think ECC actually does matter that much for us casual/home users, but I like to reward the people who actually do make it easy to "do the right thing". Same deal as only purchasing AMD graphics cards since 2005-ish(?).)
If you're not worried about certain chip features and power draw, last gen server equipment is very cheap.