[ensignavenger]

Current market prices for ECC RAM are approximately twice as much. I just built anew Ryzen system and considered using ECC, but I couldn't find any DDR4 3000 RAM, and the DDR 4 2666 ECC Ram was just under twice as much as the DDR4 3000 non ECC I ended up with. Opportunity for a future upgrade , though. (My motherboard does support ECC :)

The real question though for a large scale consumer product manufacturer is how much margin they could convince the RAM makers to give up on ECC. Once it became standard, it probably would not cost much more than non ECC. Maybe 15% more? (1/8th extra memory, plus some extra for other expenses.)

[flyinghamster]

I found that, at least for DDR4-2400, the ECC price premium is about $50 per 16 GB stick. I sprang for it anyway, but still winced at the cash register racking up the numbers for my own Ryzen upgrade.

It is nice to see "EDAC amd64: DRAM ECC enabled." in my dmesg output. :) That, and the NVMe SSD is screaming fast.

I'm debating whether to try my hand at overclocking my R7-1700, but even leaving it at the stock clocking it's pretty speedy, and it runs cool with the stock cooler.