[ale] Back to new the desktop question

[Jim Kinney]

Any new CPU is an upgrade! RAM is always king but fast storage is an
amazing performance boost. A large-ish spinning rust hard drive for
archival (video, tarballs, ISO's, etc) plus an NVME drive for OS and /home
will feel like an all-RAM machine.

I've been doing big systems for so long I automatically think of 128GB RAM
is a minimum. Then I realized it's going to be my gear and money...

On Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 7:45 AM Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> The old dell 960 is starting to flake out, and everything else I have is
> older and slower.
>
> The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X has my attention, since I don't do a lot of gaming
> or graphics. Is there a better CPU, with a decent price point? Most of what
> I do is email, websearch, and Python. Occasionally run docker to test
> something in an image.
>
> Part of me wants a motherboard that can take several 32Gb memory sticks,
> while the other part of me notes that of the 2.4G of ram currently used,
> almost half of it is cached stuff.
>
> So, opinions on the 5600X, and suggestions on a motherboard for a small
> tower?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Leam
>
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