I haven't built a PC from scratch in quite some time but I have gotten tired of working on my laptop and decided it was time to build a new development workstation.
Around the same time that Scott Hanselman was building his “Ultimate” developer PC I was building my “Premium” developer PC if you are going off of Visual Studio SKU names. I didn’t want to break the bank and put down $3k like Scott. My target was to build the best workstation I could for less than $2000.
I typically run many programs at the same time and often enough have some virtual machine running as well. It was important for me to have enough RAM and CPU power to run all the apps required on a daily basis.
Goals
- Multi Core – Looking for minimum Quad core, but really want to go Hexa core (6 Core)
- Lots of RAM (Minimum 8GB)
- Fast hard drives (Sata III, SSD for boot, 7200rpm for data)
- Storage space (Raid 0 1TB)
- Decent graphics to support multiple monitors (Dual DVI + 1GB)
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