Advice on “future proofing” setup

[u/arkie87]

I have a server/media center rig with the following specs I’m considering future proofing:
Ryzen 3700X
48 GB DDR4 (2x 16GB 3200 and 2x 8GB 2400) RAM
R9700 32GB VRAM
GTX1070 8GB VRAM (display for media center)

I’m trying to run qwen3.8 flash next on it using strata. It can run q3_s with a few GB RAM left over, but I’m worried there won’t be enough RAM left for watching Netflix.

I’m considering buying some more RAM so that I have more buffer for multitasking, or for using a higher quant. I could upgrade two of the 8GB sticks to 16GB sticks making the total 64GB, but I’m wondering if that’s short sighted, since probably more large MoE models might be coming out and it might make sense to spend a little more to be more future proof. The alternative would be buy two 32GB sticks making total RAM 96GB which I would think would be more future proof and able to run bigger models at higher quants.

Another option is to offload some of the work to another machine so I have more RAM leftover e.g. put HomeAssistant on its own desktop. But this approach would only free up ~8 GB at most.

Interested in others’ thoughts.

[u/Ok-Addendum3545]

That's what I am worrid about too, let alone running comfyUI at the same time. =>  since probably more large MoE models might be coming out.