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I unfortunately have the exact kit of ram you mentioned to avoid, it came with the Microcenter bundle.

I live ~2.5 hours from Microcenter, so I took a gamble-- reviews were very mixed but the price was insane. If I had bought this setup from my local BestBuy or online, I'd have returned it.

What's your plan if you can get that 256GB RAM config? Run some full-fat LLM's on your iGPU?

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> What's your plan if you can get that 256GB RAM config? Run some full-fat LLM's on your iGPU?

No, mostly running lots of VMs and databases, which tend to chew up a ton of RAM. And I dabble in a few cryptocurrency projects that can be a bit RAM-heavy and/or sometimes benefit from a fast RAM disk.

I actually downgraded, going from 256GB on X99 to 128GB on AM4, so it'll be nice to get back to 256GB with modern features and CPU performance (without having to spend thousands of dollars on Threadripper or Xeon W).

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