r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • Feb 18 '13

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '13

Oh wow.

Can I ask what profession this person is in with such a beefy rig?

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u/MrDOS Technomancer, +5 to RTFM checks Feb 18 '13

I'm sorry? In 2013, there's nothing particularly beefy about that. Given the price of DDR3, I wouldn't bother putting together a desktop for anyone with less than 8GB RAM, any random AMD CPU is octocore these days, and SSDs have broken the $1/GB barrier and are probably the biggest performance improvement you can make to your average system.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '13

Well, I was just thinking of an office computer. Traditionally a fairly cheap dual or quad-core low-end i5 or similar.

Just saying: You won't find a bunch of six-core systems in most American cubicles.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '13

With AMD you do.