I'm running 64 GB ECC with a Ryzen system. As it turns out, memory in general was just exorbitantly expensive in the recent past, so the ECC premium wasn't all

I'm running 64 GB ECC with a Ryzen system. As it turns out, memory in general was just exorbitantly expensive in the recent past, so the ECC premium wasn't all that much. On the flip side, I don't do PC gaming so having faster memory didn't really matter much; current ECC was already faster than the 5 year old system I was upgrading from. For me, the reason to go ECC was just to prevent silent file corruption. With 64 GB, the math is in favor of me seeing bit flips. Moreover, I tend to put my machine to sleep, rather than shut it off, which also increases the likelihood of memory errors. I wouldn't say I have a highly specialized workload outside of the occasional VM, consisting of large files, for development. A lot of it is I just didn't want to deal with silent corruption of family photos & videos, even if the underlying file formats are pretty resilient. Personally, I think the situation should be flipped. Everyone should run with ECC these days and only run without for specialized environments like gaming where you want to squeeze out every FPS you can. Faster memory isn't going to matter for most situations.