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It used to be the case, when RAM were less reliable, that all workstation ram was ECC, it fell out of favor due to cost and performance priorities.

However, as both software complexity and ram availability increase, the likelihood of memory corruption increase as well, even with memory reliability being quite high.

I don't run ECC on my gaming computer, (I also run its hard-drives in raid0, I care about performance, capacity and cost-effectiveness).

I do run ECC on my file storage (zfs server) and on my workstation. It might not be strictly needed on my workstation, but I just don't want to think about it, and it's just another parameter towards more reliability.