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Quad-Core Haswell Xeon, 32 GB ECC RAM (server RAM is ridicously cheap second-hand). 27" 1400p, 19" 1280x1024 (not a good match, not used very often). Arch Linux
by dom0 10y ago
Quad-Core Haswell Xeon, 32 GB ECC RAM (server RAM is ridicously cheap second-hand). 27" 1400p, 19" 1280x1024 (not a good match, not used very often). Arch Linux, KDE.
Paid about 250 € for CPU/MB/RAM.
Previously: Phenom X6 1055T, 16 GB non-ECC RAM. The X6 was a pretty decent CPU for parallelized work, due to it's six cores, but pretty poor in most other regards. The Haswell quad is "only" 50 % or so faster on average in thread-heavy work, but much, much faster in anything single threaded and has a much more recent ISA (the X6 doesn't include AES-NI, for example).
Mobile: X200 bastardized with a X201 board. Qubes, KDE. Formerly Arch and i3. Didn't like i3's handling in Qubes.
My recommendation: don't buy hardware new. Especially since in the last years there is no real difference anymore between Intel generations. No need to pay a 100+ % premium to get Skylake, if Haswell performs essentially the same.
- peller 10y ago> don't buy hardware new Generally agreed, except that SSDs are a major exception which should always be purchased new.
- dom0 10y agoI think drives in general should be bought new, at least for production use (ie. were it is a hassle to replace it). I've got quite a few second-hand rust-spinners, but I only use them for backup purposes, ie. they are all replaceable with no loss.