Just for the record here (i.e., moral support for you, Trevor), I too have always been a strong believer in ECC. And heck, the original IBM PC had ECC (or did it just do parity checking, and crash if parity error?).

Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331

On 28 January 2017 at 00:46, Trevor Cordes <trevor@tecnopolis.ca> wrote:

I'm looking for input from anyone in the club who may be knowledgable,
eyeballing, or has purchased a "workstation" system recently with ECC
memory. (Note, ECC is imperative!) I don't need dual-socket, crazy
speed, just something like a mid-range modern i7 with modern RAM, slots,
etc. (i3 speeds won't cut it.)