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Thanks a lot for all your help guys. I appreciate your suggestion brob but I'm now just too excited about 6 cores so I'm going to go for the AMD. Here's what I'm going to go for: 1. CPU - AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ~£200 2. Cooler - incl. 3. Motherboard - MSI - B350 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard ~£100 4. Memory - Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ~£120 5. SSD - Corsair - Force LE 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ~£70 6. HD - Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ~£40 7. GPU - Zotac - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Mini Video Card ~ £130 (mayyyybe 1060) 8. Case - BitFenix - Nova ATX Mid Tower Case ~£25 9. PSU - EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 (EU) 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ~£80 £745

That's great, I'm sold on the motherboard and CPU! Don't think I'll be needing SLI. The video card seems to be the expensive part in all of this at the moment. Do you think it may be possible to have a cheaper part here as I will not be using it for gaming...just for learning at the moment - @Jrock why do you think the 1050ti may be superior for my needs? Can I just switch out for a greater wattage if this is proving to not be enough or do some components require this?

wow, thanks a lot! :D. R5 1600 sounds ideal, more cores and cheaper. Don't know much about openCL but checking it out now. Questions on this rig: is it easily up-gradable? What would I swap out if I was looking to upgrade it? Do you think it's worth looking around for any parts second hand?

Hi Guys, I'm looking to get back into programming - I did a bit at uni and thought ...why not build the computer myself too? It doesn't need to be super duper high spec but I would like to have the option to upgrade as I go (see if I take to it etc.). I was thinking on this basis that maybe I should invest in a good motherboard/SSD/...HD and then just decent other second hand components. - I'd like to be able to overclock - to learn about it more than for performance gains ...to begin with anyway - I don't mind second hand ... or third hand for that matter (big price reduction?) - I'd like to have multiple cores and threads (as many as possible within reason) because I enjoyed learning MPI/OpenMP at uni and I want to play around with them - I will be running linux ubuntu (unless you have a better suggestion) - I DO NOT want to use this computer for gaming but I would eventually like to learn CUDA ... if you know what I mean - I will have 2 monitors Budget: ~£770.24 at the time of posting, preferably lower obvs ...but can go higher if I'm asking the impossible. (I live in the UK but that's around $1000) Spec: I bow to your superior wisdom ...but I was thinking an i7-6700/i7-6800 as a starting point. I would really appreciate any help from you kind, knowledgeable, attractive folk and I apologise if I have posed this request in an ignorant manner (no doubt the internet will subtly let me know if this is the case).