[jakobson14]

Talk to intel.

On AMD ECC support is pretty much standard on every chip they make, and always has been. Even my shitty 4-core phenom from over ten years ago on an el-cheapo motherboard supported swapping it's regular DIMMs for ECC ones. You're never going to get ECC "for free" but it would be totally possible for everyone to pay the cost once and just move to ECC-only for everything from now on.

Except intel, the company that brought software-locked hardware features to x86, love to price-differentiate.