Spec me a new desktop

JaredBusch

I need a new desktop as mine did some funky shit over the weekend that ended with an OS reinstall on Sunday.

Pop and snap but no magic smoke or ozone smell. I have a feeling the OS was doing an update as it was around noon when it happened and my dnf-automatic schedule runs at noon and midnight. So just shit coincidence there.

Fedora would boot to recovery mode, but that was about it. Reinstalled and all is good, but I am not going to wait for a repeat, or worse, failure. Time to buy a new box. This one was purchased in 2011.

What I need:

i7 or AMD equiv
16GB RAM
support for 2 monitors
form factor to hold 1 SSD & 1 SATA
OS will be Fedora 26 + Cinnamon

Prefer a pre-built as I have long ago lost the desire to tinker with hardware at that level.

bigbear

Video requirements?

Price?

marcinozga

Intel NUC perhaps? There are some models that support 1 M.2 and one 2.5" SATA disk. It's mostly pre-build, you just need to supply your own drives and RAM.

bigbear

@marcinozga said in Spec me a new desktop:

Intel NUC perhaps? There are some models that support 1 M.2 and one 2.5" SATA disk. It's mostly pre-build, you just need to supply your own drives and RAM.

I thought for some reason he said laptop.

I definitely agree on the newer NUC setups. $260 will get him everything listed.

Alex Sage

@bigbear said in Spec me a new desktop:

$260 will get him everything listed.

Link?

momurda

@bigbear $260 will get him the cpu, maybe.

scottalanmiller

http://store.hp.com/us/en/ConfigureView?catalogId=10051&urlLangId=&langId=-1&storeId=10151&catEntryId=1621651&quantity=1

scottalanmiller

https://www.amazon.com/HP-Workstation-Graphics-Z2E14UT-ABA/dp/B01NCLHQB3?tag=bom_tomsguide-20&ascsubtag=TGUS21061508527757007&SubscriptionId=AKIAJLYKPRLXUSF4GDIQ&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953

scottalanmiller

Or money no object...

https://www.amazon.com/HP-Elite-Slice-Desktop-Ultra-Small/dp/B01M8GTN2F?tag=bom_tomsguide-20&ascsubtag=TGUS92521508527757010&SubscriptionId=AKIAJLYKPRLXUSF4GDIQ&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953

bigbear

@aaronstuder said in Spec me a new desktop:

@bigbear said in Spec me a new desktop:

$260 will get him everything listed.

Link?

At Microcenter I got a 16GB, SSD Drive, i5 setup a few months ago for my son, $260. I missed the i7. All of it was clearance/sale stuff. But I cant imagine needing anything faster.

bigbear

@scottalanmiller said in Spec me a new desktop:

Or money no object...

https://www.amazon.com/HP-Elite-Slice-Desktop-Ultra-Small/dp/B01M8GTN2F?tag=bom_tomsguide-20&ascsubtag=TGUS92521508527757010&SubscriptionId=AKIAJLYKPRLXUSF4GDIQ&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953

LOL we are prepping for first kid going off to college in 24 months. Cant imagine. I havent even bought a new Macbook since late 2013.

JaredBusch

@bigbear said in Spec me a new desktop:

@aaronstuder said in Spec me a new desktop:

@bigbear said in Spec me a new desktop:

$260 will get him everything listed.

Link?

At Microcenter I got a 16GB, SSD Drive, i5 setup a few months ago for my son, $260. I missed the i7. All of it was clearance/sale stuff. But I cant imagine needing anything faster.

I don't need the i7 often, but I do run some video transcoding ocasionally as well as compile code.

If nothing was reasonable on an i7 i would easily accept an i5

DustinB3403

Is there a price cap you won't go beyond?

RojoLoco

@dustinb3403 said in Spec me a new desktop:

Is there a price cap you won't go beyond?

bigbear

It was a deal like this, but better. And in store I believe the deals are better...

http://www.microcenter.com/product/485572/NUC_Kit_NUC7I3BNH

Not sure if you have a Microcenter around...

DustinB3403

https://i.imgur.com/WQxon6k.png

DustinB3403

Obviously you'd format the SSD and install Fedora.

JaredBusch

@bigbear said in Spec me a new desktop:

Video requirements?

Display 2 monitors at native resolution. This is work not gaming.

@bigbear said in Spec me a new desktop:

Price?

Not really relevant. I expect to spend under $1000 with 2 monitors. maybe $1500, but I do not have a budget.

scottalanmiller

@dustinb3403 said in Spec me a new desktop:

https://i.imgur.com/WQxon6k.png

All that and only 16 GB of RAM.

scottalanmiller

That price is a bit nutty. An old, free OS. Laptop level RAM. Nothing special on the GPU, only on pay with my two year old laptop. A slow, small SATA drive. It's a nice CPU, but one gen old. The price makes no sense at all.