I prefer to use Debian as my daily driver. Nothing against other distro and I do experiment with others and I have used others, but I just prefer Debian. Currently on 13 Trixie stable. This year I want to build a PC or get another laptop so that way I can play my steam games, games from the repos, and flatpak games. The kind of games I like to play are the four age of empires games, stronghold, one and two, roam total war or really any total war. Sometimes I dabble other things, but those are the games I like the best. I also like to do emulation. I want to run 1080P. I also do normal tasks. I’m in college online so I do college work and it is for cyber security so I do coding in python and C++. I select the code in Lua for fun. I like to use window manager such as openbox or awesome. Any help with recommendations for hardware where I can get what would work and possibly save money in the process would be great. Also, currently I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T580 but I just can’t get quite enough out of its hardware when it comes to the games I like to play.

A Mix of 16gb ddr4 ecc and 32gb ddr4 ecc kits, was able to snack 512gb from it. the rest was sadly thrown away so i couldn't grab more :(

If my colleague counted correctly then it was a total of 65 ram sticks