My new system: Ryzen 7950X, RX 7900XTX, 64gb RAM, 2x2tb 980 pro, 1x1tb 990 pro

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.
- 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.
- Lol i still have 16gb
- My server has 156GB RAM and I don’t think I’ll ever hit 8GB usage hahaha
  
  It’ll boot faster if you take some out.
  
  8GB
  My server has 8GB of RAM and it rarely even gets up to 4GB of actual RAM usage.
- 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".

- Arch (btw), but I’m thinking of trying Endeavour because it has nice defaults that I might’ve missed in my installation.
  
  +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.
  
  with that many cores you should install GENTOO LINUX
- 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.

Curious, what tasks do you use that much RAM for?
- 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.
  
  And I didn’t set up a swap partition, neither.
  You should always use a swap partition for linux, even if you have more than "enough" memory. It just works better for a very very tiny loss of diskspace.
  https://haydenjames.io/linux-performance-almost-always-add-swap-space/
  
  Thank you, I wondered. I keep thinking I need to upgrade to 32GB from 16 but have get to run into a need other than the prices are pretty cheap these days
  
  I've heard you can load and run windows 100% on ram. You should give that a shot. Just never fully shut down your PC.
- 32GB for Windows, 8GB for the software to run all the different RGB, that leaves you with what, 24GB for gaming?
  
  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
- For the Seconds chrome tab
- VMs, containers, and running make -j (yep, that's right, -j without specifying the maximum number of parallel jobs)
- I have 64 too and my usage breaks down to basically be 32 for windows, 32 for different VMs.
  
  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.

May just be the perspective, but man your GPU looks like it's sagging upwards
- Yeah, got that comment before, so I spent some time with a ruler and a screwdriver to make sure.
  It seems the case GPU support was a bit too high.
  Thanks!

The gpu looks tilted, did it not fit in the upper bracket?
- 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!