New PC - what to look for around the £2,000 mark?

[ChimpMaster]

Thanks Woohoo, will check out CyberPower too.

Got this quote from PC Specialist, £1,654.00 seems a lot! (bearing in mind the monitor is a separate £560). Would you guys change anything?

Case InWIN 904: Contemporary & Innovative Brushed Aluminium Case
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor i7-5820K (3.3GHz) 15MB Cache
Motherboard ASUS® X99-A: ATX, HSW-E CPU, USB 3.0, SATA 6 GB/s
Memory (RAM) 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3000MHz X.M.P (4 x 8GB)
Graphics Card 4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 970 - DVI, HDMI, 2 x mDP - 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics Card NONE
1st Hard Disk 240GB KINGSTON V300 SSD, SATA 6 Gb (450MB/R, 450MB/W)
2nd Hard Disk 2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 64MB CACHE
M.2 SSD Drive NONE
1st PCI-E SSD Drive NONE
RAID NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply CORSAIR 650W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Processor Cooling INTEL SOCKET LGA2011 STANDARD CPU COOLER
Thermal Paste STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Fan Controller NONE
Sound Card ASUS Xonar DSX - Bring Hi-Fi spirit to your Music, Movie & Games
Wireless/Wired Networking 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB Options MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence
DVD Recovery Media Windows 10 (64-bit) Home DVD with paper sleeve
Office Software Microsoft® Office Home & Student 2016 (1 License)
Monitor NONE
Keyboard & Mouse NONE
Speakers LOGITECH Z313 2.1 SILVER/BLACK SPEAKER SYSTEM
Webcam NONE
Warranty 3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)

Price (excluding VAT) £1,378.33
Price £1,654.00

[Bluespider]

I thought 2k was the magic number for Amortisation on the company accounts?

[woohoo]

If you wanted to save some money you could get an older graphics card, previous generation.

If you are not a gamer then your graphics card looks a bit over the top. Then again what little I know is a year out of date.

Some recent comments on amazon are pretty scathing about the performance of the SSD.

I think I paid around 2.6k (can't remember) for a decent machine.

I went for 32Gb ram because i often have several instances of VS/SSMS etc open. Along with a couple of VMs. If you don't need the extra RAM perhaps reducing to 16Gb.

Regarding the case/power supply will leave that up to someone more knowledgeable than me.

[ChimpMaster]

I thought 2k was the magic number for Amortisation on the company accounts?

Not flat rated, my mistake in the original post.

Still, looks like in total I'll be spending too much, probably around £2,500 in total with all bits and pieced included

[DimPrawn]

I would say 32Gb is absolute min for the type of development I do, but I work in the big data/machine learning/data analysis arena where 6TB of RAM is not uncommon on a server/workstation.

I think leave the ram at 32Gb for future proofing sake.

Rest of spec looks okay. I like my data on SSD for fast access so would probably have lots of these Crucial CT1000BX100SSD1 BX100 1TB SATAIII 2.5inch SSD installed.

[MrMarkyMark]

I would say 32Gb is absolute min for the type of development I do, but I work in the big data/machine learning/data analysis arena where 6TB of RAM is not uncommon on a server/workstation.

If 6TB, of RAM, on a workstation is not uncommon, why are you slumming it with a paltry 32 GB?

[DimPrawn]

If 6TB, of RAM, on a workstation is not uncommon, why are you slumming it with a paltry 32 GB?

6TB computers cost a few quid...like Bugatti Veyron money. Cheap for an hedge fund, they spend more than that on a few bonuses each year.

[MrMarkyMark]

6TB computers cost a few quid...like Bugatti Veyron money.

I thought that sort of sum would be nothing to DP Enterprises LTD.

[woohoo]

I think leave the ram at 32Gb for future proofing sake.

He can always add more in the future, when he needs it and it might even be cheaper.

[ChimpMaster]

CyberPowerPC configuration, cost £1860. On this one I have 2 x 500Gb SSD and 2 x 1TB drives, possibly in a RAID setup.

I like this but that's a lot of money!


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CPNR1:Cyberpower Anti-Vibration Fan Mounts -- reducing the noise transmitted from Fans [+9]
CPNR2:Cyberpower Power Supply Gasket -- reducing the noice transmitted from Power Supply [+5]

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