I picked up a i3-9100 a few months back because its was a low cost processor with ECC (for an edge/embedded solution). The problem then becomes the motherboard,

I picked up a i3-9100 a few months back because its was a low cost processor with ECC (for an edge/embedded solution). The problem then becomes the motherboard, and it seems intel has just shifted the ECC tax from the processor to the motherboard/chipset. That core fits on a lot of low cost motherboards, but to enable ECC requires about another $100 chipset tax.