And I installed Linux. And it’s awesome.

EDIT: yes, the GPU was a bit tilted. Fixed it now!

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    I strongly disagree with the too much RAM hate. I have 32GB and run out. 64GB would be freedom to do whatever. That’s how computing should be.

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      The correct amount of RAM is enough that you never, ever have to think about it no matter what you choose to do.

      Ditto for storage.

      32GB is “fine”, but yes, I occasionally run into cases where it’s not enough. Typically with VMs or CPU-based machine learning tasks that are too big to run on GPU. I’m not really into video editing but I assume that needs a ton as well.

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          Noted! I haven’t got it set up yet. I have all the hard drives and stuff, but I haven’t been motivated lately. :c

          Plus, once I have UNRAID going, ideally it will almost never need to boot!

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            I personally would not take it out, “unused” RAM will be used by the OS as e.g. disk cache, or you could have a fairly large ramdisk.

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              I see! I’m very extremely new to this! Insofar I’ve only got some RPi machines set up, I don’t yet know anything about UNRAID or big servers.

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              I’ve got a GSA gifted to me by a friend, and he filled it to max with RAM beforehand, and flashed the BIOS with regular… Dell? BIOS?

              It’s The Cheat from Homestar that I had to get a buncha SAS drives for. I didn’t know they were a thing.

              It’s unfathomably gigantic and heavy, but I guess it has a couple processors and a ton of RAM!

              (Also love your handle)

              Edit: oh shit it’s also got two PSUs for whatever raisin hahaha

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      128gb here. I sit constantly between 40 and 70gb in use. Heavy multitasking between Internet, professional, gaming, and creative outlets can sometimes push near 90.

      16 was the pcmr standard in 2010, but is a complete joke now. 32g is the new 8gb now. “Casual” pc usage is way, WAY heavier now: nobody just uses a computer for only one thing anymore, they use it for multi-window browsing, music, and YouTube, along with the new standard of everybody plays games and nobody wants to close shit just to play a game.

      Games are heavierweight and the only reason it’s as low requirement as they are is because of console peasants. CS2 is like 100gb storage, up from the laughable ~2gb in csgo. That’s just not how the world works anymore. The economy has chosen ease of development and priority on graphical fidelity over deep design complexity. Shit; Starfield is basically just a 200gb graphics mod of Morrowind.

      And then you have heavy users like us, who actually use bleeding edge functions, who have grown up wanting better and more, experimenting and not trusting and wanting to pay cloud. Despite the neon gamer rog chrome and black image, I’d be willing to bet almost every person here in this thread has at least one HDD currently in use (take note of these demographics: fediverse, English speaking, pcmr, aware of RAM) - and the reason is because they’re cheap, fairly reliable storage and we all ain’t made of money. Ironic because of the amount of RAM being discussed.

      32GB has been the new 16GB for probably five years, and realistically, 64GB is actually what you should be getting when you upgrade/make a new build.

      Reason: 64GB, right this minute, is one double above “just cutting it”.

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      Arch (btw), but I’m thinking of trying Endeavour because it has nice defaults that I might’ve missed in my installation.

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        +1 for Endeavor. Started daily driving it for about 3 months now and it’s incredible.

        Some of the minor tweaks I need to make really bring me back to the early days of learning PC and trouble shooting (but with actually solutions / outcomes this time and not just a brick wall at the end).

        That being said nearly everything has just worked out of the box. Plus with timelapse (timeshift? I forget the name) you can basically be sure that you won’t brick the system if you mess anything up.

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          +1 for Endeavour from me too. I came from Arch and decided Endeavour was better for me. Building your own setup in Arch is great, but so is having everything set up for me.

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          I actually considered this (I have a 7950X) but I recall someone on Gentoo’s forums saying you shouldn’t use them all even on the best liquid cooler. The heat from that would be a major issue.

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      Man I feel like a fraud in this thread. I’ve been using Linux for more than a decade now but I installed only Windows on the new system. I use it like an Xbox, turn it on when I play games and then go back to the laptop for everything else.

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      Totally overkill. I thought I would be running lots of containers and virtual machines, but really never seem to use more than 16gb total. And I didn’t set up a swap partition, neither.

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      32GB for Windows, 8GB for the software to run all the different RGB, that leaves you with what, 24GB for gaming?

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        You serious 32gb for Windows? I know it’s a resource hog but 8gb is more than enough for win11 not accounting any other software

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        That’s cool, what do you use your VMs for? We have them setup at work too split resources but I can’t think of a personal reason to use a virtual machine.

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      Yeah, got that comment before, so I spent some time with a ruler and a screwdriver to make sure. here’s a new picture

      It seems the case GPU support was a bit too high.

      Thanks!

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      I double checked: it’s just the perspective of the photo

      EDIT: I just finished reinstalling the card with a ruler in hand because I couldn’t take the thought out of my head lol. Spent 1 hour because I had to clear the CMOS after the cards reinstallation and first cold boot re-training memory, but now it’s technically aligned!

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    and a fractal torrent compact, good choice!

    edit: or wait, is that the regular torrent? I can’t tell

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    Oh wow, I have the same CPU and GPU setup (different brand on the latter tho).

    In any case, you picked great for Linux.