On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:30:48AM -0600, Dale wrote: > > One last question for anyone who has done this recently. When finished, > I'll have a FX-8350 CPU with 8 cores at 4.0/4.2GHz, 32GBs of memory all > on a Gigabyte 970 series mobo. Would there be any point in upgrading to > a whole new rig or is what I have about as fast is reasonable to build? > I don't do gaming or anything. Even the GTX 650 video card is likely > overkill for what I do here. The older 200 series card is working just > fine. On one hand, my current build is several years old. On the > other, computers seem to have reached their peak. I'm sure there is > more powerful systems out there but would I be any better off with one? > > Thanks to all for the help on this. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
IMO that's totally fine. I just built a new rig to use for programming and some "light" gaming and it's not even that good. My specs are AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (6 core, 3.2 GHz) and 16GB RAM. This replaced a rig that was 7 years old that had a better CPU (Intel 3930K) and more RAM (32GB) :D. Alec
