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So this weekend I put my desktop PC on the kitchen table and had grand plans of going back to PC gaming.
Turned out my PC got a bit slow so I decided to do a clean install (Windows 7).
Unfortunately it remained slow and, worse, kept hanging on updates and installs.
It's pretty useless to me now and I've put enough time into getting it to work again.
I'm now looking for a new PC and I figure it should last me at least five years.
Unfortunately I know very little about hardware.
I found the following:
Intel® Core i7-6700 (3,4 GHz) (4 cores)
8GB RAM
240 GB SSD
2TB SATA
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 (2.048 MB)
And of course Windows 10 Home 64-Bit (OEM) 
The only thing that's really bothering me is the price tag: €999,- 
I could go a little cheaper, but now that I'm going to spend money anyway...
Would be a major bummer if I spent a lot of money and couldn't play the newest games.
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Five years? 
I'd double or quadruple the RAM.
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The one I have now is about five years old. It worked fine until, well, last weekend.
Unfortunately, doubling the RAM is relatively expensive.
I found a good PC just like the one I had in mind, but double RAM, something about CPU turbo boost, blu-ray burner (instead of DVD, but the last time I burned a CD must've been in high school).
It costs €200,- more, but I'd only do it for the RAM.
I could buy an extra RAM card, but even that is an extra €70 to €80.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I could buy an extra RAM card, but even that is an extra €70 to €80.
I think that's well worth it. I put 16GB on my laptop, which I now use as my main dev box, it's soooo quiet, and hey, the built-in battery backup has been really helpful when the vacuum cleaner blew the circuit breaker, hahaha. The 16GB gives me room to do a ton of things, including running an Ubuntu VM with 8GB dedicated to it.
Marc
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I've just paid £40.00 for 8G of ram from a company in Birmingham.
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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.
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Under 700 euro's (though my spec is two or three years old)
Intel Core i3-32170 @1.80GHz (4 cores)
16 Gb RAM
128 Gb SSD
Custom built with Win7 preinstalled as I know nothing about hardware either. Uses 65 Watt when turned on - compare that to your desktop. No moving parts either, no fan, no harddisk - just silence and a Windows that boots in 4 seconds.
Dragon Computers[^]
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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That's seems like a good box. better than mine.
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I recommend the Gigabyte Brix Pro[^]. I absolutely love mine, which I bought a year ago. The box measures 4" x 4" x 2.5".
i7 4th gen, 3.2GHz, 16G RAM, 500GB Samsung fast-write SSD, HDMI and mini display port video at 4K each. I use mine for development and it screams (I run Win 7 Enterprise). Power-on to Windows login prompt takes about 5 seconds. If you're a gamer, consider buying the gaming version.
Performance stats[^]
/ravi
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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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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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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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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).
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i7s start at about £450 in the UK, perhaps look there (if you dont mind a UK keyboard).
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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!
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Sorry to tell you but with this build you can't play the newest games (on high details)
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More RAM and better GPU... if you want to play games of course.
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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.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I don't tend to listen to music whilst I work. However, I have some fairly loud people around me and am deep in some fairly complex code so need to be able to blot them out.
Realized I had no music with me so had a quick search and, voila, up popped Google Play[^].
Perfect. Never even knew it existed.
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I use the Amazon Music[^] as it still allows downloading mp3 and it can auto upload any music files you place on your computer to your own cloud space for music if you download their desktop app.
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Sander Rossel wrote: What's wrong with Spotify[^]?
Many commentators have suggested that if we knew the answer to that question we'd know a great deal more about the Universe!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Nothing I would imagine. I rarely listen to music so just picked the first site that came up.
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I don't know Google Play, but I see many €'s.
Spotify is free (if you're willing to listen to some ads, it's not that bad) and they have a lot of music 
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Carefully, if you find it too useful, they'll probably shut it down.
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Shutting it down would be too good for it.
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