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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.

CPallini wrote:

You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him. :Smile:

[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.

I'd rather be phishing!

[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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