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PC Configuration for a SW Development system

8 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/pc-configuration-for-a-sw-development-system.149154/

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tariqadib Original post #1
Nov 24, 2011 at 10:25 AM
Hi
I want to configure a system for the primary purpose of developing .net applications and i'm not looking to spend much. What's the best AMD based system that I could conjure up in under 15k inclusive of a monitor.
Adib
Jaskanwar Singh
Jaskanwar Singh #2
Nov 24, 2011 at 11:25 AM
Component | Make | Price Processor |AMD Athlon II X2 250|2750
Motherboard |Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2P (rev. 3.1)|2250
RAM |G-skill F3-10600CL9S-2GBNT|750
HDD |Seagate 250GB 7200.12|3400
DVD Writer |Samsung/Sony 24X Sata DVD|950
Case |Zebronics Bijli(with psu)|1500
Monitor |Dell E1709W 17"|4000
Keyboard & Mouse |Logitech MK100|500
UPS |Zebronics 600VA|1100
Speakers |Creative SBS 2.0 A35|400
| Total |17600

if you have a HDD currently then batter use it as HDD prices are high.
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tariqadib #3
Nov 28, 2011 at 10:21 AM
Hi Jaskanwar

Thanks for the reply. You proposed a gigabyte motherboard. I had been considering an AMD board - one that comes with an onboard ATI. What do you say about that.
Jaskanwar Singh
Jaskanwar Singh #4
Nov 28, 2011 at 2:13 PM
you are welcome.

there is no amd board. amd just supplies chipset to the companies like gigabyte, msi, asus etc.
that board has a onboard nvidia gpu though.
look, if you are planning to game a little then onboard graphics are not that good for this task.
drop in a card like amd radeon hd5670 or 6670 for 4-5k if you are a casual gamer.

for higher cards you will need a descent psu too.
Soumik
Soumik #5
Nov 28, 2011 at 6:07 PM
I want to ask something about this config. I have AMD Athlon II X2 245 proc with 4 GB ram at 1333 speed and 780G chipset in my office. We use applications for designing, repository management, outlook, lots of office documents, database access tool, an open source web server and 2 heavy duty IDEs for java and flex. When i open everything togather, the system hangs up. I agree the versions might not be the latest and they have memory leaks in them, but for these to run smoothly, we need better systems, and it wont help if i add a graphics card to the mix. Cause none of the applications can use GPU as a processing unit. I really am not sure what is needed, but a basic proc and chipset is certainly not enough for heavy software development tasks.
My guess... processors which have high cache memory and capable of doing calculations faster (not just higher clock speeds). And a mobo-ram-hdd combo which has very low latency for memory access, both ram and hdd.
Can you suggest something is this line. My friend wants to buy a PC at home purely on development requirements, and which will not frustrate us to hell like our office systems.
Cilus
Cilus #6
Nov 28, 2011 at 6:53 PM
Soumik, create a new thread and post all your requirements over there.
Soumik
Soumik #7
Nov 28, 2011 at 7:43 PM
My query is the same as the topic for this one... system for SW development. So i updated this one... Anyways.. was going a start a new one anyways.. will post this also there... :)
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tariqadib #8
Dec 5, 2011 at 9:21 AM
Hi Jaswankar,
Thanks again for the information. I was thinking of a little gaming but I guess you're right. I'll need a better gpu for that. So i'm dropping that idea.

Thanks again,
Adib