Hey all, so I've just started a PhD in theoretical physics and was planning on building a computer for number crunching. I'm not sure what type of processor to get, or how important fast ram is.
I'm wondering if having more cores will help do many different calculations at the same time, or if having fewer cores but faster ones is better. I also understand that more ram is better in this case, but I was unsure as to the importance of it's speed.
Lastly, because I wont be gaming on this the graphics card doesn't need to be great but I love having multiple screens.
If anyone has any experience it would be appreciated. If you want more specifics I'm going to be doing a lot of numerical integration, solving high order polynomials, diagonalizing massive matrices, and probably using mathematica too.