Mind if I ask you? How exactly are you choosing parts for your build?
Looks like, you're just choosing most expensive options available.
$900 motherboard? How exactly is it any better than $250 board? Does it have any extra feature that you absolutely require?
if I was choosing the most expensive parts it would cost closer to 40k, by selecting motherboards with extra RAM/M.2 slots to spend the most amount of money possible
I'm essentially doing what I'm doing now
I started with a pc plan (11900k, z590e gaming, etc), then checked for stuff that should change, and it slowly evolved
I found out that Alder lake is coming out soon, so I'm doing research about RAM and stuff to make sure nothing will be a severe bottleneck that could be solved with less money
https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/...ME/E17684_ROG_MAXIMUS_XIII_EXTREME_UM_WEB.pdf
Sure, 128 gig is supported. But it's not going to be used, magically. So it's wasted.
Let's paint a scenario. You are browsing, maybe gaming. RAM usage sits between 10-16 gigs. For the lifetime of your system. That means you have 100 gigs of RAM that is never used BUT you paid for it. Unless you have a use-case for 128 gigs, why are you buying it? I can understand if you want to run 20 Virtual Machines or something. Even then you could get away with 64 gigs.
So it is just like with the 16 tb SSD. Yes, computer will recognize it but majority of it won't be used, other than the part that is taken up by Windows. You pay for it but no benefit. When you could have gotten a 250 gig SSD and been fine with that (for a Windows-install).
Here is another analogy. You want potatoes for the next 5 days. So what you NEED is 2 kilos of potatoes. But what you BUY is 200 kilos. Majority of it will only rot away. You wont use it, you wont eat it. But you payed for it.
Will those 2 kilos of potatoes taste worse (negative performance on RAM) because you bought 200 kilos? No. But the 2 kilos wont taste any better either (Wont be any benefit either). It is just a waste of money.
ofc not, unless I did -Xmxmin100g or whatever the argument is
and that wouldn't help at all, it would prob either just crash or run generally worse
I found it to lie around 20, but close enough, I know 32 is more than enough, it could even be considered "overkill," with 64 being known as insane, and 128 being somewhere between stupid and ridiculous
I'll try to come out with a scenario for what I'm doing
I get a job, but my parents have an extra car, and over the past 60 years of their lives have saved up enough money to send me off to college, where I will most likely pursue an engineering degree
I have 2 years, and a job, and a bunch of friends who I play Minecraft with
Most of the time, my experience is fine, 60+fps, 4k, etc, but in some situations it goes down to ~50, and sometimes <30, so I am looking to upgrade my pc
over the two years, I will save up ~$15,000 from just working (no stocks), and don't need all of it
I want to get better FPS, and in Engineering I have to use Autocad/Inventor a lot, so I just use a chunk of it on a PC
less of a scenario, more of a timeline, but hopefully it gives you an idea of what's actually happening here