a gig of ram… for what?

You haven’t told me what speeds you get, so it’s really hard to give you a recommendation.

The biggest, most important trend that is being ignored by the majority at the moment is Bufferbloat, and the fix is being called everything from SQM to AQM to Flow Queueing. If you have that integrated, it makes life so much nicer on the internet.

CAKE (Common Applications Kept Enhanced) is the finest implementation in this regard.

OpenWRT supports it, firewalla supports it, amazon eero and google wifi support it, mikrotik supports it… But it needs processing power - how much depends on how much bandwidth your link is.

You’re crazy.

I have a 13900k, which is very close to a 14900k in terms of heat.

I have an arctic freezer II 360.

Idle is about ambient. But I have actively optimised for this. I want power consumption as low as possible.

I used LLC undervolting. Under maximum load, which it rarely hits, it uses about 235W. Temperatures hit about 75C with 20C ambient.

60C I don’t see a possible short of exotic cooling (delidding, direct die, custom waterblock etc) or heavily power restricting the processor.

if you want 200+ tabs in chrome, get as much memory as you can afford, it’s that simple.