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$2560.62
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-01-10 21:12 EST-0500
Key features:
128Gb DDR4 ram, Six 2Tb Drives configured in Raid 1+0 Data storage and Two SSD for Raid 0 Operations, 12Gb Dedicated as OS Ramdrive.
The GFX Card is low profile but the Swiss army knife of cards that can take a beating. While the motherboard can be expanded to handle 3 sli graphic cards.
Usage:
Run Gaming Windows in real time with the Linux Servers without skipping a beat.
Had to make an unplanned PC purchase this week as my mother board bit the dust.
Went with:
i7-8700K 6-Core Processor
GTX 1080 with 8GB GDDR5X Graphics Memory
32GB Quad Channel DDR4 at 2666MHz (4x8GB)
1TB M.2 PCIe x4 SSD
1TB SDD
2 6TB 7200 RPM drives
Dell put it all together for less than I could buy the parts online
Would be interested in seeing your benchmark numbers once you are built.
My home workstation is going on 10 years old - an i5-750 w/ 8GB of memory and a positively decadent - and silly - SLI arrangement on the graphics accelerator (got the cards for free a few years ago, necessitating a beefy PSU). While today’s 10 year-old workstation isn’t as intolerably long in the tooth as the same situation 10 years ago, it’s still aging.
I confess to being tempted by the brute-force power computing power that the new-ish AMD Threadripper chips offer. With the present rate of change, such a platform could remain viable for another 10 years, properly equipped. But I’m also not gaming anymore with consistency and conveniently forgot to install a torrent client on the present rig.
I contemplated going AMD for this build. However Ubuntu 16 has a lot of issues with Ryzen so I opt to stick with something that’s highly supported across all OS’s and applications.
Sure, one can just install the ubuntu subsystem but in some cases I’d like to jump into pure linux or even android x86 instead of having them in the hypervisor.
