Protection against memory errors, I don't have exact odds of such errors, but certainly not negligible and with faster memory and capacities - those odds only i

Protection against memory errors, I don't have exact odds of such errors, but certainly not negligible and with faster memory and capacities - those odds only increase. Many such errors will go unnoticed and the impact for most will be unknown, but can equally be very impacting. Hence today it is only critical systems that have such use, as can justify the extra cost. But for everything else, it's a scale of needs, sure the low-end would be a gaming console or graphics memory, but if that gap gets smaller, uptake and usage will scale as that advantage becomes cost effective at various consumer levels. But having the option of choice, is and always been a huge plus for any consumer - AMD makes that choice far more accessible than Intel. Though I do see a mobile phone maker going ECC as the turning point in uptake and making that price gap more palatable in the end.