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what you have as specs I would consider to be the bare minimum anymore. Just for me anyway.
I like the previous posters idea of going local and having them set it up. This is a case of you get what you pay for.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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If you're talking about picking the parts to build a PC try Custom PC Builder | Newegg[^] . I've dealt with NewEgg for many years and can testify their service.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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If you have no specific requirements (gaming, mining, live streaming or video rendering...), get a dell machine with proper insurances.
Get one with a nvme drive and at least 32gb of ram and whatever graphic card they have for your budget.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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ewwww
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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pcparkpicker is a fun tool to pick parts and is more useful for an enthusiast hobbyist.
(speaking of which I have an urge to spend money now)
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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PaltryProgrammer wrote: no graphics card as I do not game only read/post here and edit under Visual Studio and stream TV shows
If you stream TV shows, keep in mind that some codecs (I'm thinking specifically of HEVC/H.265) will benefit from a decent graphics card - don't assume the onboard video will be sufficient.
And don't assume this codec is only used to encode 4K videos. I've seen 720p videos encoded with it, and some systems simply cannot deal with it.
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PaltryProgrammer wrote: 1TB SSD screaming fast
SSD's are no longer screaming fast. The fast thing now is NVMe. These devices use the PCI bus for interface with the hard drive.
If you get the right motherboard, they even let you set up a striped RAID with 2 NVMe devices. Now that's screaming fast.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Heh,
One of my Hyper-V servers has a conventional spindle drive as the boot drive. It's not terribly slow, probably takes around 10+ seconds to boot. But what's interesting is that my virtual machines are on the striped NVMe D drive. The VM's boot faster than the host operating system.
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Cool!
I'm using a striped pair of NVMe drives in my Threadripper machine. Let me tell you, the POST takes longer than the Windows bootup.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
modified 28-Apr-22 14:26pm.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: in my Threadripper machine
Which one?
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It's the 2990WX with 32 cores. It was the top of the line Threadripper in its day.
With the hyperthreading, the Task Manager has to display CPU usage for 64 cores! It's really cool.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Hmmm,
Why do you need 32 cores? I can't think of any reason for a developer to use 32/64 cores. Do you do video editing or something?
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C'mon. I'm a PC enthusiast. I built it for the sake of building it and playing around with it.
I gave it 128 GB of RAM too along with a high end video card. It's my masterpiece!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Quote: It's my masterpiece!
Impressive! But can it mine crypto? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Probably not very well. The graphics card is not that high-end.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Ok,
I can identify with that. 
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PP,
I'd write you privately. You say you no nothing about hardware but have not found a preassembled unit to your liking. then you list a lot of screaming fast stuff... As near as I can tell, you have trivial requirements for what's available in the market place. You don't game so, pick something from NewEgg. you will spend a bit more than Dell, but you can do that way if you want. I could go on, but then I'd have to tell you to buy a chassis, a power supply, etc. and although I am confident you could do that, you don't seem to have the hoossss spa 
Go get the Dell and buy a 3 year next day warranty.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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it depends on your budget, Dell XPS-15 or XPS 17 series. you will find the one you like..
diligent hands rule....
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Thanks for the Dell XPS tip. I don't know how I missed it when I first reviewed the Dell offerings. I configured one link below as close to preferred re/ parts and price as can be reasonably hoped for. I don't know which series it is as nothing shows on the page re/ same. Thanks again
XPS Desktop with up to 12th Gen Intel Processor | Dell USA[^]
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Others have mentioned it here, but I'd really recommend getting a reliable builder to do it for you. I live in South Africa, and had my last rig built for me by Wootware - they were great, providing good prices, a nominal build-and-test fee, shipping safely and helping me to arrive at a build I liked over a few back-and-forth emails. I ended up with an i9 (11th gen - 12th wasn't out yet) and 64gb RAM, wireless, nvme, pretty case, strong psu. Later got a GPU through them too.
Anyway, the point I'm trying to make here is to scout out a good company to do the build. It's quite likely that you should steer away from larger corps like Dell - check out the GamersNexus youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/GamersNexus for stories of how some of these manufacturers overcharge and underdeliver. Rather find a local shop where you can get a guarantee of the build and where you can talk to the builder a bit - it's all good and well to get a nice shiny 12th-gen i7 (as you're alluding to), but if you pair that with a rubbish mainboard and slow RAM, and slow disks, there's not a lot of point. It's a Ferrari engine in a go-cart!
Please don't rush this - it's very easy to get ripped off in this arena these days ):
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completely wasting your time
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Get something close that can be upgraded to your needs.
You could get a laptop btw and just attach your preferred keyboard and mouse. Most laptop users do, and many add a monitor by hdmi (everyone in my "office" has at least one extra monitor).
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Someone else asked the same question about a year ago. I'll post a link to my response at that time.
The computer I ended up building is running fine and strong still so good luck.
The Lounge
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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I have purchased 3 computers from this company
My preferred base box is a Dell Precision Workstation
You can configure the additional components as you desire
As others have noted this is a great way to select your plug items and play
Refurbished IT Hardward Specialist | TekBoost[^]
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If you go to parts places, make sure that you get a motherboard that has been burned in with attached memory. It is difficult to diagnose poorly designed motherboards or defective CPU chips without spending a boat load of money on spares. I once got a kit from Egghead that I abandoned after several CPU replacements and hours with tech support, only to determine the motherboard circuit design was incorrect for the CPU I wanted. But they had a replace, not a refund policy, and since the design was the problem, I could not get my money back. Other times, the motherboard was very sensitive to heat, and after trying to burn it in ourselves, got a new one. A big waste of time and money, at least half of the shipping.
I am getting a custom Dell soon, supposedly on order. The Dell experience is pretty good for such things. I don't recommend rack servers from them, however. They think they can write their own custom drivers and Microsoft will just include them. Wrong. Maintaining that set of servers was difficult.
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