I'm running VMs in a LAB and I need multples of 6 virtual machines so these high core count CPUs are exactly what I'm after and I don't mind the occasional bit

I'm running VMs in a LAB and I need multples of 6 virtual machines so these high core count CPUs are exactly what I'm after and I don't mind the occasional bit flip as it's for testing only, not production. But I agree supporting ECC RAM wouldn't add much to the cost of the CPU itself.