New Desktop PC
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I'm looking for a new desktop PC - I'm fed up of working on a laptop (I'll put VSTS on the desktop and serve the laptop as a client when I need to be mobile) and am looking for some suggestions. I've seen this Chillblast[^] one and while there seem to be a few decent reviews out there, it's not a make I've heard of before (though that doesn't necessarily mean much!). The spec looks about right - i7 950, 6Gb DDR3 RAM, ~1Tb storage, 24" monitor. I've got an XBox for whenever I can be bothered gaming so graphics performance isn't too high on my list but I'll be running VSTS2010, Office 2010, SQL2008 (inc SSAS, SSIS, SSRS) all of the time. I'm looking at BizTalk at the moment as well so I'll probably be looking install that too, so it is going to be quite a resource hungry machine. Price point - somewhere around £1000 (GBP) including VAT. Does anyone have any recommendations? TIA
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I'm looking for a new desktop PC - I'm fed up of working on a laptop (I'll put VSTS on the desktop and serve the laptop as a client when I need to be mobile) and am looking for some suggestions. I've seen this Chillblast[^] one and while there seem to be a few decent reviews out there, it's not a make I've heard of before (though that doesn't necessarily mean much!). The spec looks about right - i7 950, 6Gb DDR3 RAM, ~1Tb storage, 24" monitor. I've got an XBox for whenever I can be bothered gaming so graphics performance isn't too high on my list but I'll be running VSTS2010, Office 2010, SQL2008 (inc SSAS, SSIS, SSRS) all of the time. I'm looking at BizTalk at the moment as well so I'll probably be looking install that too, so it is going to be quite a resource hungry machine. Price point - somewhere around £1000 (GBP) including VAT. Does anyone have any recommendations? TIA
Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Hold off on getting anything with a SandyBridge processor[^]. In case you don't get The Insider. More details[^].
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
modified on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 8:05 AM
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Hold off on getting anything with a SandyBridge processor[^]. In case you don't get The Insider. More details[^].
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
modified on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 8:05 AM
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Igor uses Sandybridge but I'm in luck - I don't need the SATA ports that may be affected. My Asus motherboard has eight (plus eSATA) and the hardware RAID controller uses a single port.
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Does indeed sound as though you will be OK.:thumbsup:
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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I'm looking for a new desktop PC - I'm fed up of working on a laptop (I'll put VSTS on the desktop and serve the laptop as a client when I need to be mobile) and am looking for some suggestions. I've seen this Chillblast[^] one and while there seem to be a few decent reviews out there, it's not a make I've heard of before (though that doesn't necessarily mean much!). The spec looks about right - i7 950, 6Gb DDR3 RAM, ~1Tb storage, 24" monitor. I've got an XBox for whenever I can be bothered gaming so graphics performance isn't too high on my list but I'll be running VSTS2010, Office 2010, SQL2008 (inc SSAS, SSIS, SSRS) all of the time. I'm looking at BizTalk at the moment as well so I'll probably be looking install that too, so it is going to be quite a resource hungry machine. Price point - somewhere around £1000 (GBP) including VAT. Does anyone have any recommendations? TIA
Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
I've got a similar system to the one you mentioned. I went for 12GB RAM and am very happy with that choice, you can run almost unlimited apps and VMs. My monitor is 27", I still need more space so I'm going to buy a second one. The Cooler Master casing is very pretty, but it's open nature makes it noisy when using fans for cooling. It's bearable but noisy. Cheers
If you can read this, you don't have Papyrus installed
modified on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 8:45 AM
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I'm looking for a new desktop PC - I'm fed up of working on a laptop (I'll put VSTS on the desktop and serve the laptop as a client when I need to be mobile) and am looking for some suggestions. I've seen this Chillblast[^] one and while there seem to be a few decent reviews out there, it's not a make I've heard of before (though that doesn't necessarily mean much!). The spec looks about right - i7 950, 6Gb DDR3 RAM, ~1Tb storage, 24" monitor. I've got an XBox for whenever I can be bothered gaming so graphics performance isn't too high on my list but I'll be running VSTS2010, Office 2010, SQL2008 (inc SSAS, SSIS, SSRS) all of the time. I'm looking at BizTalk at the moment as well so I'll probably be looking install that too, so it is going to be quite a resource hungry machine. Price point - somewhere around £1000 (GBP) including VAT. Does anyone have any recommendations? TIA
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That's a spec I could only dream of :( Given the tremendous processing power and amount memory is it worth putting some extra hard drives in and RAID 5 them for speed and redundancy or even adding a couple 250GB drives for the SQL data files and one for the SQL log files etc?
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That's a spec I could only dream of :( Given the tremendous processing power and amount memory is it worth putting some extra hard drives in and RAID 5 them for speed and redundancy or even adding a couple 250GB drives for the SQL data files and one for the SQL log files etc?
I'm self employed and VAT registered so in effect it'll only cost about £650 which I think is pretty good. It's to be used as a pure development environment - since I tend to work with confidential client data, I tend to use mock data sets which I can rebuild at will. As such, I'm not too bothered about having extra redundancy in place. I might think about getting a second drive and putting them both in a RAID 0 array but I'm still a little way off needing 3Tb of storage so RAID 5 might be a way down the line yet!!
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