SXM to PCIe adapters already exist hehe

Not to mention my dumbass would chuck money at a whole server just to throw it in my home lab.

But posting screenshots of your task manager tells us nothing. If it uses 30% of your RAM at start time, that’s fine. Or not. Can’t really tell.

Man if only there was some type of metric that showed available memory instead of cached

Actually I think you meant hard allocation in which case it can actually be bloated applications that request too much preallocation from the OS (source: every Java jar ever).