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Thank you for the advice just at the moment don't have a couple of grand to get everything in one shot.
The sound would be lost on me as hard of hearing/deaf so that isn't really a requirement for me but would know it's working well if my neighbors come over to tell me turn it down 
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Urban Cricket wrote: Don't trust AMD. Get Intel.
I've been using AMD since they released the AM286 in the late 80's. Today, most of my machines are still powered by AMD. Out of 14 machines in my house, only three are Intel.
AMD is just as fast (or faster) for less money. Functionally, there is no difference. If it wasn't for AMD, the Intel fan-bois would still be gobsmacked by their single-core 486's.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I have used both intel and amd just as John mentioned I'm going with AMD as I can get a good processor and the savings is allowing me to go for the extra memory and hard drives.
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A word of warning: if you build a custom PC you run the risk of having components that do not work together well.
Where I work they thought they had built the "Ultimate build server" with very expensive components, it turned out to be slow as molasses, probably due to the RAID controller not playing well together with the other components ...
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A valid point which is why I was seeking help to be sure I was on the right path. I'm taking a little longer to review the specs on everything to make sure they should all play nicely as you said if something is not compatible then I will be a sad camper.
Have a great day.
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The SSD and memory are the things you'd want to focus on.
My "desktop" is a small 65watt box without moving parts; no fan, no sounds, by using an i3 laptop-cpu. Before you call that "too slow", remember that compiling is not just a CPU-function, there's a lot of disk-activity involved.
When I bought it, lots of people would say 16Gb is excessive - and that's true, most people do not have a VM running with 4Gb dedicated to it.
Spent about less than half of what you are proposing 
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Thanks and you said what I was thinking memory and ssd would be the big ones to make sure I get the most I can afford today.
Have a great day
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: My "desktop" is a small 65watt box without moving parts; no fan, no sounds, by using an i3 laptop-cpu.
In my case, the heavy lifting (VM host) is done by a beefy tower system sitting in another room, and I use a puny Intel NUC on my desk (quiet, takes even less power than your 65W laptop, generates no heat) to remote into individual VMs. Although any old laptop would also do, in the real "dumb terminal" sense.
The only thing that was important to me, for the system sitting on my desk, is screen real-estate - the NUC can drive a 4K monitor, and I also have two additional 1080p monitors running off of USB3-to-VGA adapters.
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I'd opt for a gaming laptop, fully loaded with SSD + external HDD, & 32gig memory - if possible.
Even an used Dell mobile workstation with SSD & 32 gig memory would definitely fit the bill with great performance.
I'm completely done with Desktops. Fiddling with SMPS ,UPS ,Motherboard& HDD problems.
It's been a great journey with pure-notebook set up (with dock-stations)
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Will look around to see if I can find something that will work for me. Thanks for the suggestion.
Have a great day.
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After all this talk about hardware, I went ahead and ordered a 500gb PCIx nVME SSD and an adapter (that holds two nVME drives) for my desktop so I can put my VMs on it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Always happens when people talking about hardware that others go I want to buy some too  . If you don't mind which brand do you select for the PCI nvME SSD as I'm reading up on those and tempted to get one.
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Samsung - there were others that were less expensive, but most of those ship from China and take MONTHS to arrive.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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well a bit late to the party but my 2 cents worth.
graphics card: nah, I've just built a new machine very similar (except mines intel) and I don't miss the graphics card at all, even doing CAD. Not missed at all.
m2 drive they run hot, and cause the chipset to run really hot, so
1. more case cooling - but gets weird coz too much cooling can be as bad too
2. skip the m2 [for now] ??? well seriously you will not notice the difference in your usage
boot time difference on a SATA ssd vs m2: less than a second. And once booted: difference is none you will ever notice (except in SOME really hard core games.) m2 will likely reduce the life of your mobo, and during heavy compiles (on really large projects) may even cause thermal shutdowns unless you really have the cooling well figured out.
skip the spinner, throw in a couple of 1TB SSD's (for SSD 1TB are the best gb/$ at the moment.)
In a year or so you will see m2 daughter boards (with better cooling in mind) - already some coming out right now but expensive/proprietary - early days.
could always fit a m2 later once they have the cooling properly figured out. (also predictions that SSD prices will drop by midyear plus m2 drives will get better capacity too.)
Oh, next seriously think about installing linux and running windows in VM(s)
- can run multiple copies, can take/rollback to snapshots, totally separate the dev env from testing... and linux makes good use of powerful hardware, windows not so much.
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Thank you for taking the time to respond.
Very useful information to consider before my final selection of parts as still tweaking and verifying everything should work together before I pull the trigger on my purchases.
I have thought about a linux OS just despite my username I haven't played with linux in a while and not sure which OS would be a good one to try. I have to look up John's posts as I know he's been sharing some tips about his migration to linux from Windows.
Again thank you and have a great day.
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Ubuntu or Mint (based on Ubuntu, but with a less traumatic UI change for long-time Windows users). If you want something lighter weight, use Lubuntu, but your system specs don't really require a lighter distro.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Thanks I will research the ones you mentioned.
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Quick note: NewEgg has the ASUS ROG Strix B450-F on a 48 hour sale (40 hrs left) for $109.99
Edit: promo code: EMCERSP22 in case you don't see it
specs are very similar, Strix has dual m2 (vs single), slightly better sound, but what I like most is it has HDMI 2.0 + DP versus HDMI + DVI-D
- display port is far more common in monitors = more choices (esp if going dual screens)
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Thank you so much for sharing I'll take a look at it right now.
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Personally I would stick with Intel chipset/cpu if you are going to be using VMWare.
Agree with others re SDD, I would have a 250GB for your main boot/OS, a second 250GB for your VM boot/OS and then a pair of mirrored 1-2TB mechanical drives for data storage (both for real and VMs).
As said elsewhere, no need for a graphics card unless you want to go for more than two monitors - an Asus H270 has dual video out already.
An Intel network card for the VMs would also make life a lot simpler.
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Thank you so much for the advice.
Have a great day.
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I’d go for a 1tb SSD over the 10k rpm spinner. Cheaper and faster. I used AMD cpus/chipsets for years but switched to intel CPUs/chipsets about five years ago. Kept running into situations where AMD didn’t support this or that new feature, whereas just about everything is support on Intel platform. If you go Intel, get an “H” motherboard. The main thing the “X” motherboards support (over H) is overclocking. If you’re not gaming, you probably don’t need it. And PCIe x4 SSD is definitely the way to go for your system drive.
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Thanks and I did swap the rpm spinner for another SSD.
Have a great day.
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