Ok, she's dead...

Sander Rossel

So this weekend I put my desktop PC on the kitchen table and had grand plans of going back to PC gaming. Turned out my PC got a bit slow so I decided to do a clean install (Windows 7). Unfortunately it remained slow and, worse, kept hanging on updates and installs. It's pretty useless to me now and I've put enough time into getting it to work again. I'm now looking for a new PC and I figure it should last me at least five years. Unfortunately I know very little about hardware. I found the following: Intel® Core i7-6700 (3,4 GHz) (4 cores) 8GB RAM 240 GB SSD 2TB SATA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 (2.048 MB) And of course Windows 10 Home 64-Bit (OEM) :sigh: The only thing that's really bothering me is the price tag: €999,- :( I could go a little cheaper, but now that I'm going to spend money anyway... Would be a major bummer if I spent a lot of money and couldn't play the newest games.

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Lost User

Five years? :~ I'd double or quadruple the RAM.

Sander Rossel

The one I have now is about five years old. It worked fine until, well, last weekend. Unfortunately, doubling the RAM is relatively expensive. I found a good PC just like the one I had in mind, but double RAM, something about CPU turbo boost, blu-ray burner (instead of DVD, but the last time I burned a CD must've been in high school). It costs €200,- more, but I'd only do it for the RAM. I could buy an extra RAM card, but even that is an extra €70 to €80.

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Lost User

I suggest DDR4 RAM (runs at 2.130 GHz), at least 32 GB

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Marc Clifton

Sander Rossel wrote:

I could buy an extra RAM card, but even that is an extra €70 to €80.

I think that's well worth it. I put 16GB on my laptop, which I now use as my main dev box, it's soooo quiet, and hey, the built-in battery backup has been really helpful when the vacuum cleaner blew the circuit breaker, hahaha. The 16GB gives me room to do a ton of things, including running an Ubuntu VM with 8GB dedicated to it. Marc

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Lost User

Under 700 euro's (though my spec is two or three years old) Intel Core i3-32170 @1.80GHz (4 cores) 16 Gb RAM 128 Gb SSD Custom built with Win7 preinstalled as I know nothing about hardware either. Uses 65 Watt when turned on - compare that to your desktop. No moving parts either, no fan, no harddisk - just silence and a Windows that boots in 4 seconds. Dragon Computers[^]

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Ron Anders

That's seems like a good box. better than mine.

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BillWoodruff

Based on my assumptions (i.e., shaky hypotheses) about what your modal use of the computer might be: I think you'll need at least 16gb. of ram. cheers, Bill

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Brisingr Aerowing

I have an Asus ROG Gaming laptop with 24 GB RAM, and it can run pretty much anything. An SSD really helps as well. I can run two instances of VS 2015, Firefox with 20+ tabs, An instance of Blender, AND a local Jenkins instance I set up to do builds and perform analysis. All at once. With no lag or crashing. (This was from before the NVidia testing in production issue that forced me to refresh the system. I haven't installed Blender or Jenkins again, yet. The Jenkins setup was a bit haphazard to say the least.)

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Shelby Robertson

Mike Mullikin wrote:

I'd double or quadruple the RAM.

I second this. 16GB is the absolute minimum I would put in a new machine, and if you could leave room to expand to 32 in the future it would be a good idea.

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DaveX86

If you don't plan on over-clocking it, you could get the one with the locked core that comes with a stock CPU cooler, put the extra money towards more ram (I'd get at least 12 gigs).

Munchies_Matt

i7s start at about £450 in the UK, perhaps look there (if you dont mind a UK keyboard).

Maximilien

What is the intended use of the computer ? work, play, ? an i7 is not really useful for regular work (IMO), get a top i5 instead; get 16meg of ram.

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HobbyProggy

Sorry to tell you but with this build you can't play the newest games (on high details)

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xiecsuk

I've just paid £40.00 for 8G of ram from a company in Birmingham.

Joan M

More RAM and better GPU... if you want to play games of course.

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Lost User

Try to get DDR4 ram. Runs twice the speed of the more common DDR3 ram. Of course the main board must be designed for DDR4.

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