It’s time for me to buy a new desktop, as my old one isn’t working so well anymore.
It also happens to be ‘black Friday in July’ which opens up the opportunity to perhaps get a good sale price somewhere.
Time is valuable, so I’m happy to spend a reasonably large amount if it actually matters, but I don’t want to throw good money after nothing.
Given how many people would benefit from getting this question right, and how many people are likely to have good answers, I figured I’d ask here.
My specific goals are basically:
Windows 11, I’m not open to negotiation on this one for various reasons.
Will be able to open and rapidly switch between a ton of chrome tabs, including massive google sheets and google docs.
General reliability and future-proofing.
High-end gaming would be nice but mostly reliable medium-end gaming is fine.
Handle at least 3+ monitors well.
Relatively quiet fan is a big plus, especially loud ones are deal breakers.
The usual other stuff you’d want a computer to be able to do these days.
Current top candidate after talking with one friend first is this Alienware PC configured with processor 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700KF (25 MB cache, 12 cores, 20 threads, 3.60 to 5.00 GHz Turbo), Win11 Pro, NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3080, 10 GB GDDR6X, LHR, 64 GB memory, HDD 1 TB, M.2, PCIe NVMe, SSD (with plan to also use the existing computer’s HD as well) and Office Student.
Secondary possibility is Lenovo is having a massive sale on that includes the P620, seems like the more expensive versions are way more expensive than they need to be even post-sale so I’m suspicious (my old computer is a Lenovo and mostly was fine for a while until it wasn’t).
Also very open to additional brands/possibilities.
UPDATE: Someone has volunteered to build it on my behalf, so yay. Still seems like a good question in general.
[Question] What New Desktop Should I Buy?
It’s time for me to buy a new desktop, as my old one isn’t working so well anymore.
It also happens to be ‘black Friday in July’ which opens up the opportunity to perhaps get a good sale price somewhere.
Time is valuable, so I’m happy to spend a reasonably large amount if it actually matters, but I don’t want to throw good money after nothing.
Given how many people would benefit from getting this question right, and how many people are likely to have good answers, I figured I’d ask here.
My specific goals are basically:
Windows 11, I’m not open to negotiation on this one for various reasons.
Will be able to open and rapidly switch between a ton of chrome tabs, including massive google sheets and google docs.
General reliability and future-proofing.
High-end gaming would be nice but mostly reliable medium-end gaming is fine.
Handle at least 3+ monitors well.
Relatively quiet fan is a big plus, especially loud ones are deal breakers.
The usual other stuff you’d want a computer to be able to do these days.
Current top candidate after talking with one friend first is this Alienware PC configured with processor 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700KF (25 MB cache, 12 cores, 20 threads, 3.60 to 5.00 GHz Turbo), Win11 Pro, NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3080, 10 GB GDDR6X, LHR, 64 GB memory, HDD 1 TB, M.2, PCIe NVMe, SSD (with plan to also use the existing computer’s HD as well) and Office Student.
Secondary possibility is Lenovo is having a massive sale on that includes the P620, seems like the more expensive versions are way more expensive than they need to be even post-sale so I’m suspicious (my old computer is a Lenovo and mostly was fine for a while until it wasn’t).
Also very open to additional brands/possibilities.
UPDATE: Someone has volunteered to build it on my behalf, so yay. Still seems like a good question in general.