ECC is overrated. It's almost never necessary (outside of servers) and other types of errors are orders of magnitude more likely to occur on a developer laptop.
I just built a ECC desktop, the math I saw implied I'd say 1 or 2 random crashes a year. Additionally to true random bitflips it seems MUCH better at identifying bad dimms, or bad dimm slots. I'd much rather have an ECC error than start randomly replacing CPUs, dimms, and motherboards.
Seemed pretty cheap to me. How much is a few less crashes a year worth it to you?
Keep in mind the error rate is per GB, so 32GB crashes 2-4x more often than the more common consumer sizes of 8-16GB.
