I've just retired, and opening up a home consultancy. I've not built a machine in 20 years.
Nevertheless, although I don't want to spend a grotesque amount of money, I've got some basic needs (A man has needs....)
I'm a developer, and maintain remote systems. I make very heavy use of VM software, as well as the usual compilers debuggers, the occasional sketchup session, etc. Note that I don't play games, and don't care about overclocking. I also would favor reliability over slight advantages in performance. Thus, I want an i7.
I do care about memory (at least 32G... I've only seen a couple of boards that offer 64G, and they appear to be unreliable at that level), and I would like to have 3 or 4 displays (3 displays is an old work habit, 4 displays is a possible enhancement to that).
I'll be running windows, but the majority of work done will be in VMs and terminal sessions. Oh, yes, and I'll need at least 2 NIC's.
Right now, I'm angling towards a GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-UD5H with an appropriate i7, a 120Gb SSD, 3 1TB drives (Raid-5).
The question then, is 1.) What motherboard (if the gigabyte above isn't appropriate) and 2.) what's the cheapest way to attach and drive the monitors?
Oh, yes, last but not least, I'm planning on buying all of this this week or next.
Thanks for all of your help.
Nevertheless, although I don't want to spend a grotesque amount of money, I've got some basic needs (A man has needs....)
I'm a developer, and maintain remote systems. I make very heavy use of VM software, as well as the usual compilers debuggers, the occasional sketchup session, etc. Note that I don't play games, and don't care about overclocking. I also would favor reliability over slight advantages in performance. Thus, I want an i7.
I do care about memory (at least 32G... I've only seen a couple of boards that offer 64G, and they appear to be unreliable at that level), and I would like to have 3 or 4 displays (3 displays is an old work habit, 4 displays is a possible enhancement to that).
I'll be running windows, but the majority of work done will be in VMs and terminal sessions. Oh, yes, and I'll need at least 2 NIC's.
Right now, I'm angling towards a GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-UD5H with an appropriate i7, a 120Gb SSD, 3 1TB drives (Raid-5).
The question then, is 1.) What motherboard (if the gigabyte above isn't appropriate) and 2.) what's the cheapest way to attach and drive the monitors?
Oh, yes, last but not least, I'm planning on buying all of this this week or next.
Thanks for all of your help.
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