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gorgekara
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Building a dev/gaming PC - What do you guys thing about these specs:

+ Mouse Cooler Master Storm Mizar SGM-4005
+ Intel i5-6600K
+ SSD 2.5" Samsung 850 Evo
DIMM 8GB DDR3 1866Mhz Kingston CL10
+ Cooler Master Hyper 212
+ PSU 750W CoolerMaster GM series G750M
+ PCX GeForce GTX 1070 8GB GDDR5 DVI/HDMI/3xDP VR Ready DX12
+ Monitor 25" Dell UltraSharp U2515H LED IPS, 16:9, QHD 2560 x 1440
+ Keyboard Gigabyte K85 Mechanical Gaming
+ ATX Case Fractal Design Core 3500 Windowed
+ Motherboard (not sure yet)

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  • 4
    10y
    For gaming it's really nice but for development work you should really aim for an i7 / 16GB of RAM.
    It massively improves build/debug times.
  • 1
    10y
    @kwilliams You are right, i'll probably get two DDR4 8GB RAM.. not sure about that i7 though.. lots of great reviews for i5-6600K
  • 2
    10y
    Like I said the i5 6600K will be amazing for gaming, I have one in my gaming PC.
    That is because very few games are optimised for more than 4 cores, so for gaming there is little justification for the extra cost.

    For development though you really need those extra cores as you're running your apps/emulators at the same time as your debugging environment. If I planned to develop on my home PC I would have got an i7 also.
  • 1
    10y
    @kwilliams cores = threads*
  • 0
    10y
    Sufficient for VM El Capitan.
  • 0
    10y
    @DevotedSniper I would argue that the i7 is more important. In the future he could upgrade his ram to 16gb because hes not building a laptop. It's better he gets a nice i7 first.
  • 0
    10y
    I have 6700k i7, which is perfect for coding. Also, 16GB if possible is also must.
  • 2
    10y
    Extra cores are very useful (essential!) if you use VMs. And I assume every dev uses them these days!
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