Spec me a new desktop
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I need a new desktop as mine did some funky shit over the weekend that ended with an OS reinstall on Sunday.
Pop and snap but no magic smoke or ozone smell. I have a feeling the OS was doing an update as it was around noon when it happened and my
dnf-automaticschedule runs at noon and midnight. So just shit coincidence there.Fedora would boot to recovery mode, but that was about it. Reinstalled and all is good, but I am not going to wait for a repeat, or worse, failure. Time to buy a new box. This one was purchased in 2011.
What I need:
- i7 or AMD equiv
- 16GB RAM
- support for 2 monitors
- form factor to hold 1 SSD & 1 SATA
- OS will be Fedora 26 + Cinnamon
Prefer a pre-built as I have long ago lost the desire to tinker with hardware at that level.
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Video requirements?
Price?
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Intel NUC perhaps? There are some models that support 1 M.2 and one 2.5" SATA disk. It's mostly pre-build, you just need to supply your own drives and RAM.
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@marcinozga said in Spec me a new desktop:
Intel NUC perhaps? There are some models that support 1 M.2 and one 2.5" SATA disk. It's mostly pre-build, you just need to supply your own drives and RAM.
I thought for some reason he said laptop.
I definitely agree on the newer NUC setups. $260 will get him everything listed.
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@bigbear $260 will get him the cpu, maybe.
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@aaronstuder said in Spec me a new desktop:
@bigbear said in Spec me a new desktop:
$260 will get him everything listed.
Link?
At Microcenter I got a 16GB, SSD Drive, i5 setup a few months ago for my son, $260. I missed the i7. All of it was clearance/sale stuff. But I cant imagine needing anything faster.
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@scottalanmiller said in Spec me a new desktop:
Or money no object...
LOL we are prepping for first kid going off to college in 24 months. Cant imagine. I havent even bought a new Macbook since late 2013.
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@bigbear said in Spec me a new desktop:
@aaronstuder said in Spec me a new desktop:
@bigbear said in Spec me a new desktop:
$260 will get him everything listed.
Link?
At Microcenter I got a 16GB, SSD Drive, i5 setup a few months ago for my son, $260. I missed the i7. All of it was clearance/sale stuff. But I cant imagine needing anything faster.
I don't need the i7 often, but I do run some video transcoding ocasionally as well as compile code.
If nothing was reasonable on an i7 i would easily accept an i5
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Is there a price cap you won't go beyond?
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It was a deal like this, but better. And in store I believe the deals are better...
http://www.microcenter.com/product/485572/NUC_Kit_NUC7I3BNH
Not sure if you have a Microcenter around...
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Obviously you'd format the SSD and install Fedora.
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@bigbear said in Spec me a new desktop:
Video requirements?
Display 2 monitors at native resolution. This is work not gaming.
@bigbear said in Spec me a new desktop:
Price?
Not really relevant. I expect to spend under $1000 with 2 monitors. maybe $1500, but I do not have a budget.
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That price is a bit nutty. An old, free OS. Laptop level RAM. Nothing special on the GPU, only on pay with my two year old laptop. A slow, small SATA drive. It's a nice CPU, but one gen old. The price makes no sense at all.
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@scottalanmiller said in Spec me a new desktop:
@dustinb3403 said in Spec me a new desktop:
All that and only 16 GB of RAM.
Hey I matched his specifications nothing wrong with build it yourself but he doesn't want to go that route.
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@scottalanmiller said in Spec me a new desktop:
That price is a bit nutty. An old, free OS. Laptop level RAM. Nothing special on the GPU, only on pay with my two year old laptop. A slow, small SATA drive. It's a nice CPU, but one gen old. The price makes no sense at all.
I agree, but it's there, I can't think of the other "linux builder" that I saw a while back. . .
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With the Intel NUC does anyone know if Fedora works well there?
I would miss my 4TB 3.5" SATA drive, but I can buy a large 2.5" drive.
@scottalanmiller what about those HP boxes you linked. Any idea how well Fedora supports the hardware?
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@jaredbusch said in Spec me a new desktop:
With the Intel NUC does anyone know if Fedora works well there?
I would miss my 4TB 3.5" SATA drive, but I can buy a large 2.5" drive.
@scottalanmiller what about those HP boxes you linked. Any idea how well Fedora supports the hardware?
No idea, I've never tried on those. I've never used those at all, they just look really nice.
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I have HP Envy laptops running Fedora 26 perfectly. But that doesn't tell us very much.
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Why not something from supermicro?
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Something in their gaming line likely hits all of the points you need.
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@scottalanmiller said in Spec me a new desktop:
@jaredbusch said in Spec me a new desktop:
With the Intel NUC does anyone know if Fedora works well there?
I would miss my 4TB 3.5" SATA drive, but I can buy a large 2.5" drive.
@scottalanmiller what about those HP boxes you linked. Any idea how well Fedora supports the hardware?
No idea, I've never tried on those. I've never used those at all, they just look really nice.
They do, that is why I am curious.
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If you wanted something like this. . .
ThinkMate assembles these (and more options)
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I'm a fan of CyberPowerPC https://www.cyberpowerpc.com/ and AMD Ryzen CPUs are the price/performance champ at the moment.
