Development Machine

[MegaThorx]

Budget

Up to € 400,00

 

Aim

A development machine where I can connect remotely to work on it. I'm planning to run mainly Ubuntu 16.04 on it (primarily for web development [nginx, mysql, elasticsearch, phpstorm]). It is possible that I later use Windows on it.

It should consume as less power as possible.

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

 

[martward]

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/f6pJBP
Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/f6pJBP/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($109.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: MSI H110M PRO-VD PLUS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($46.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($41.99 @ Jet) 
Storage: Crucial BX200 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($59.99 @ B&H) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.78 @ OutletPC) 
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($40.99 @ NCIX US) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 520W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($49.98 @ B&H) 
Total: $399.70
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-31 08:30 EST-0500

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/f6pJBP

[Streetguru]

3 hours ago, martward said:

 

I'd ditch the SSD for 16gbs of RAM, also not the right country

 

 

4 hours ago, MegaThorx said:

 

Your choice is really between an i3 6100 and FX 8300, depends if you want per core performance or multi-threaded performance, the FX chip obviously uses more power as well, and basically needs to be ATX sized

If you can hold out for Ryzen you should be able to get a reasonable workstation with more cores/threads than intel counterparts, hopefully anyways

[brob]

Most development environments do better with higher performing cores over higher core counts.

 

The case in this build is not great. But it is inexpensive. The add-on fan provides needed additional airflow and is 4-pin to allow for decent motherboard control of fan speed.

 

Ideally the build would use an ssd instead of an hdd. By dropping memory to 8GB and eliminating the hdd, the best one could do would be a ~250GB ssd. Not really enough if Windows might be installed. SSD would improve development experience.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  (€116.93 @ Mindfactory) 
Motherboard: Asus H110M-K Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (€58.99 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Memory: Corsair ValueSelect 16GB (1 x 16GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (€92.89 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€52.43 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Case: Zalman ZM-T1 PLUS MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (€21.98 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Power Supply: XFX XT 400W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€46.09 @ Mindfactory) 
Case Fan: BitFenix BFF-SCF-P12025KK-RP 51.3 CFM  120mm Fan  (€9.81 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Total: €399.12
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-31 19:01 CET+0100

[MegaThorx]

@brob well I will go likely with an SSD and if I need later windows Ii can still pick up an HDD. And I'm thinking 8 GB is for my tasks enough. My VM which I'm currently doing the stuff has also only 8 GB RAM.

[brob]

24 minutes ago, MegaThorx said:

@brob well I will go likely with an SSD and if I need later windows Ii can still pick up an HDD. And I'm thinking 8 GB is for my tasks enough. My VM which I'm currently doing the stuff has also only 8 GB RAM.

If you feel 8GB of memory is enough and ~250GB of storage is sufficient, go for the ssd. It will provide a much more responsive system. Especially in development, which usually involves a lot of storage calls.