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I have: Asus PRIME A520M-K Motherboard 2x M391A2K43DB1-CVF (Samsung 16GiB ECC Unbuffered RAM) AMD Ryzen 5 3600

I specifically was looking for bang for buck, low(er) wattage and ECC.

Those AMD motherboards with consumer CPUs are a bit iffy. They run ECC memory, but it's hard to tell if it is running in ECC mode. Even some of the tools that identify ECC is running will say it is, even when it isn't, because the motherboard will report it is, even when it isn't. ECC isn't a qualified metric on the consumer boards, hence all the confusion.

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