Hi community!
I’m in the process of building a new office PC for:
- tenths of firefox tabs open some with Microsoft 365 Excel
- some VMs because I will be installing Debian on the host, but in the office we use some Microsoft software and because, since I install, uninstall, create a lot of mess, I like to be able to go back to old snapshots or format and reinstall Windows without impacting my day to day job.
I’m still undecided about the CPU: AMD 9950x, 9700x or 7950x, but where I’ completely blind is the motherboard. What I would like:
- more than 2 PCIe slots to:
- install a PCI USB card to pass the whole controller to a VM
- install an extra NIC
- I want to be able to install a graphic card in future if needed
- more than 4 USB-A ports
- more than 1 USB-C port
- a well known and reliable brand
Do you have any suggestion even for an SSD (probably 4TB, in the 2-300€ range, maybe even something more) and RAM (64GB)?
Thanks!
That still doesn’t look like a very heavy workload. My older box was older then your 6700k and was fine running such stuff.
Perhaps your limit isn’t the CPU. What storage and ram setup do you have, did you look at that?
I’ll be honest and say that when I replaced my old crap with 7900x I did feel improvements on occasion, mostly when I really burden the pc. Plus I think having 64 gigs of ram helps there, at my old system I hit the limits sometimes. Not often, but sometimes. Now my new box just laughs at anything I try to do to it.
The bottleneck is the CPU, I’ve the task manager always open and I see the CPU struggles a lot (RAM sometimes when I use too many VMs, SSD not at all).