I have priced a desktop for 10 years but as general rules: - Go 8Gb ram (at least) - W7 x64 (don't even consider x32 anymore) - 120Gb+ SSD as your primary drive. Make sure you never hit 50% disk space usage as performance slowly drops. - Secondary HDD 7200rpm or 10.000rpm. Don't touch rust @5400rpm as it's as good as dead. - Create a 1Gb RAM Drive (free with http://www.dataram.com/ software). Move all your temp folders, compilation and asp.net temp files in there - Have your VMs on the separate HDD
Corneliu. PS>> I'd go for Dells. And get the 3 year next day on site support. They rock and when they don't they get fixed quickly. On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Bill McCarthy < [email protected]> wrote: > Win 7 x64. > BTW: It's interesting to note that some motherboard manufacturers such as > ASUS, consider x86 as good as dead. For example some of the new ASUS mb's > come with uEFI instead of classic bios, and it's all 64 bit and they only > list 64 bit OS's as supported. Of course as developers, given how cheap RAM > is we all want to be running x64 anyway to get past that <4GB limit. > > > |-----Original Message----- > |From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet- > |[email protected]] On Behalf Of Leah Garrett > |Sent: Monday, 24 January 2011 12:19 PM > |To: 'ozDotNet' > |Subject: RE: Developer PC spec > | > |SSD drive as primary drive sounds like a great idea! > | > |From what I have read, it would definitely give the dramatic improvement I > am > |looking for with this new PC. > | > | > | > |Which OS do you suggest? > | > | > | > | > |-----Original Message----- > |From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet- > |[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill McCarthy > |Sent: Monday, 24 January 2011 12:09 PM > |To: 'ozDotNet' > |Subject: RE: Developer PC spec > | > |Absolutely !! Load times are significantly better. Just bought a new OZX > drive > |the other day (mainly for VM's) > | > ||-----Original Message----- > ||From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet- > ||[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Price > ||Sent: Monday, 24 January 2011 12:04 PM > ||To: ozDotNet > ||Subject: Re: Developer PC spec > || > ||Are people going with SSD hard drives for their desktop machines these > days? > ||(not just laptop drives) > || > || > ||On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Wallace Turner <[email protected]> > ||wrote: > || > || > || This is my summary from msinfo32. I upgraded by buying just the > ||cpu/ram/mboard. This cost $800 about 6 months ago. > || Insist on an SSD for your primary (OS) drive. > || > || > || > || > || > || On 24/01/2011 8:22 AM, Leah Garrett wrote: > || > || > || > || Has anyone spec’ed out a new developer PC recently? Or got > any > ||advice? > || > || > || > || We have a new IT team so I am now able to upgrade my PC! I > ||will also be getting an MSDN subscription and will be able to choose my > OS. > || > || > || > || > || > || Current setup is Windows XP on an older PC. I develop web > sites > ||that run on Windows 2003 server. On my desktop I usually run > || > || · Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition > || > || · SQL Server Management Studio > || > || · Paint .Net (although I would also install Adobe > Creative > ||Suite on the new machine) > || > || · Remote Desktop to development server always open > and > ||to live server occasionally > || > || · Multiple browsers with dev tools installed > || > || · Microsoft Virtual PC for cross browser testing > || > || > || > || My preference would be to have a specification that would a > ||significant upgrade without scaring the guy who has to authorize the > purchase > ||(he has not told me how much I can spend). > || > || > || > || > || > || Cheers, > || 8-) > || > || Leah Garrett > || > || Web Developer > || > || > || > || D'FINE/CREATIVE:-D > || > || 42-44 Stephenson Street Richmond VIC 3121 > || > || Phone: (03) 8561 7474 Direct: (03) 8561 7472 > || > || E: [email protected] > ||<mailto:[email protected]> > || > || > || > || > || > || > || > || -- > || Wallace Turner | General Manager IT > || FEX | 61 2 8024 5200 61 2 8024 5234 | | [email protected] > ||www.fex.com.au > || > || > || This correspondence is for the named person's use only. It may > contain > ||confidential or legally privileged information or both. > || No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any > mistransmission. > ||If you receive this correspondence in error, please > || immediately delete it from your system and notify the sender. You > must > ||not disclose, copy or rely on any part of this > || correspondence if you are not the intended recipient. > || > | > > >
