Build mainly being used for programming

[Jladogana]

Hello all!

  New member but long time LTT fanboy. Due to money issues, I have not been able to build a good system in many, many years. I am starting my bachelors in IT focused on programming. I want to build a system that will last through my four year course and be able to handle just about anything I can throw at it. I have spent a fair amount of time researching CPUs, motherboards, RAM etc. I just want input from enthusiasts that have used these components rather then just relying on what I can gather from comments. 

 

  At this time I want to run an i7-7700k with an Asus Tuf Z270, and 32Gb RAM(unsure the best). Two Intel 250Gb SSDs in RAID 0 and a 1TB WD Black HDD for storage(or two running RAID 1. Just because redundancy. At this I might as well get a good graphics card to with and watercool the whole deal. 

 

  What do you guys think? 

[NinJake]

Water cool and graphics card for programming? Craziness I say! Any reason you want intel SSD over other brands?

[The_Denks]

7 minutes ago, Jladogana said:

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Atleast you chose AN i7. Not the most practical one though.

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/UberGamerKing/saved/7JCqsY

Much better build

 

Better CPU

6 cores better than 4 for things like programming, unlike gaming

Only need 16gb of RAM

Plus can also do gaming with the 1050ti

[Starelementpoke]

15 minutes ago, Jladogana said:

Hello all!

  New member but long time LTT fanboy. Due to money issues, I have not been able to build a good system in many, many years. I am starting my bachelors in IT focused on programming. I want to build a system that will last through my four year course and be able to handle just about anything I can throw at it. I have spent a fair amount of time researching CPUs, motherboards, RAM etc. I just want input from enthusiasts that have used these components rather then just relying on what I can gather from comments. 

 

  At this time I want to run an i7-7700k with an Asus Tuf Z270, and 32Gb RAM(unsure the best). Two Intel 250Gb SSDs in RAID 0 and a 1TB WD Black HDD for storage(or two running RAID 1. Just because redundancy. At this I might as well get a good graphics card to with and watercool the whole deal. 

 

  What do you guys think? 

I mean, Ryzen's only like $350. I vote you get that. Does programming make use of many threads anyway?

[Princess Luna]

19 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

I mean, Ryzen's only like $350. I vote you get that. Does programming make use of many threads anyway?

Write the codes takes as much resources as using the notepad to be honest, it is just text, what matters though is that if the program you are doing is heavy, compiling and executing could take advantage of a neat rig, but the codes writing part could be done a cheap laptop.

[Primefoxer]

27 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

I mean, Ryzen's only like $350. I vote you get that. Does programming make use of many threads anyway?

Depends what he plans on doing.

 

Also some programs work better for Intel only, granted I haven't gotten an AMD CPU so I wouldn't be able to say with much guarentee.

 

As for the PC.. Anything that has hyperthreading, decent SSD, 16GB DDR3/+ RAM and a GPU will make do for almost any task for programming.. This is if you do programming only of course. Personally I have an i5u 4GB ram laptop that I use for school and work and it works fine. Never had an issue running multiple IDE's, a VM, many chrome tabs and a server running on those shabby specs. So if you just need a PC for programming then almost anything will be fine, really.