Pick your budget first, then decide on the parts.

Post #429,102 by Another Scott 5/21/19 7:42:52 AM 5/21/19 7:42:52 AM Reply	Pick your budget first, then decide on the parts. I recently put together a Ryzen2 2700x with an Asus motherboard for work. It was about $1800 all-up, with a high quality power supply, a big case with lots of fans, a ~ $250 graphics card, and 32 GB of RAM. It's for computation, general office work, some python coding, etc., not games or editing movies. It drives 2 x 1080p monitors - enough cheap desktop space for me for a while. Get an NVMe SSD (sockets on the motherboard) for your boot drive - it's much, much faster than the SATA-based SSDs. I used PCParts Picker, but just as a general guide. (I needed to get all the parts from one vendor - and not Amazon - so I got things that were in stock at Provantage.com) I'm hoping it lasts until I retire. ;-) I don't like Hybrid drives either. I got one back in the olden days (500 GB, maybe?). It wasn't any faster and wasn't as reliable as a plain-old high-quality hard drive, and you can get 1 TB NVMe SSDs for $110 now so there really isn't the need to compromise for fast storage. (And if you need something like 10TB of HD storage, then you really want something reliable like an Enterprise-grade drive and a good backup strategy and that's not cheap.) HTH a little. Good luck! Cheers, Scott.
Post #429,103 by pwhysall 5/21/19 8:31:37 AM 5/21/19 8:31:37 AM Reply	32GB? Do you have a task that benefits from that much RAM? I've got 16GB in mine and I've only seen Photoshop use more than 75% of that on one occasion. Lightroom is much less RAM-hungry - it's rare that it'll exceed 4GB in use, no matter what I'm up to.
Post #429,104 by malraux 5/21/19 10:33:50 AM 5/21/19 10:33:50 AM Reply	Pffft. Chrome. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #429,105 by Another Scott 5/21/19 4:42:43 PM 5/21/19 4:42:43 PM Reply	Yup. Plus it wasn't that much money for 2x16 DDR4. $150? $200? I forget. It can start to be expensive to wait too long to upgrade RAM. Older RAM generations seem to become profit centers for someone. E.g. Crucial 2x16 DDR3 is around $280 on Amazon at the moment. The Prime X470 Pro motherboard still has another pair of RAM slots available, also too. One thing I didn't appreciate on ordering everything was the throbbing multicolor LEDs on the AMD fan and the motherboard. It's kinda pretty, but if you don't want to be distracted by them don't get a case with a glass window. ;-) (There may be a way to turn them off, but I haven't bothered to check.) Cheers, Scott.
Post #429,106 by boxley 5/21/19 10:20:32 PM 5/21/19 10:20:32 PM Reply	phillips screwdriver, works on warning lights in dash as well "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
Post #429,107 by pwhysall 5/22/19 2:03:14 AM 5/22/19 2:03:14 AM Reply	Ooh, get her with her dollar dollar bills, y'all. £165 is the current asking for a 2x16 kit from Crucial. I've got a CoolerMaster Silencio 550 case - plain black mid tower, with extra sound insulation. And no window. There could be a disco going on in there, and I can't hear or see it :D I need to do some maintenance. The front fan is a bit grumbly after six years and needs replacement, but I'm lazy and haven't bothered. This is shocking because it's both easy and cheap to do. I also need to replace the power supply with a fully-modular one (the cable management is :sadface:), and the current boot disk which is a SATA SSD needs replacing with an M.2 NVME equivalent.

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