[ale] Back to new the desktop question

[Leam Hall]

The 5600X can take 128GB of RAM, while the 5600G can *only* do 64. Just sayin'...

The other driver is that my daughter wants to go back to school for data science, and I want to learn with her. That means Pandas (Python), etc, and cores/threads/ram.

Hadn't thought about NVME drives, but that would work. My entire install, absent backup drives, is less that 100 GB. Do motherboards support both NVME and internal rust? Or would the rust need to be on USB?

The choice of Linux may get pushed back to Fedora/RHEL, since I work on RH based stuff most of the time. I dislike/hate systemd, but love the ability to rebuild the entire system without having to type in all the of ip, network, disk layout stuff. SLES can do that, but I'm more familiar with RH.

Leam

On 12/4/22 08:14, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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