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Feb 11, 2017 13:19:05   #
cjc2 Loc: Hellertown PA
 
I have a similar Dell system which I use for work other than PP. I like the Dell system, have two monitors on it, but have upgraded nothing since purchased. I use only Apple for my PP, but that really doesn't matter. I have found a 250GB SSD to be more than sufficient. I have all my applications on the SSD on this machine, a MacBook Pro and have almost 50% left. The key is that my actual image files are stored elsewhere, on NAS storage. My main system for PP has 32GB RAM and 4GB on the video card. Best of luck.

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Feb 11, 2017 15:57:13   #
Billy Bob
 
Last week tiger direct that a PC on sell for $300. 8 ram 2 TB 17 screen laptop windows. Just 1-888-278-4437 I buy a lot for them good people to work with.

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Feb 11, 2017 17:01:30   #
JimKing Loc: Salisbury, Maryland USA
 
jerryc41 wrote:
I've been buying similar since the Studio, then 8500, and 8700. Based on an article I read a day or two ago, I would get the Core i5, for $699. I always buy a computer with minimal memory and hard drive. I buy aftermarket memory for a much lower price - usually 16GB, since that seems to be the sweet spot between price and performance. I use the original HDD for data (D drive) and add a Samsung 500GB SSD as the C drive. That holds the OS and programs. My son is running a computer with a 250GB SSD, and the size isn't a problem.

http://gizmodo.com/dont-waste-money-on-intels-top-processor-1791426602
https://smile.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E500B-AM/dp/B00OBRE5UE/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1486821287&sr=1-1&keywords=samsung+internal+ssd+500gb

EDIT: I don't see them offering an SSD.
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Some great ideas, thanks. I've added drives, memory, daughter boards, but hadn't checked price comparisons. Like I said, great ideas and my bank account is breathing a sigh of relief already. So also, thanks again.

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Feb 11, 2017 17:03:27   #
JimKing Loc: Salisbury, Maryland USA
 
Billy Bob wrote:
Last week tiger direct that a PC on sell for $300. 8 ram 2 TB 17 screen laptop windows. Just 1-888-278-4437 I buy a lot for them good people to work with.


My current PC is from Tiger Direct, so another good idea.

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Feb 11, 2017 23:25:58   #
rck281 Loc: Overland Park, KS
 
I really don't understand 24Gb of ram. Intel uses a dual channel memory controller for the i7-6700 and similar Skyline CPUs. I would think one would use either 2 or 4 8Gb memory sticks.
The 2011 socket computers a triple channel memory controller which would indicate 3X 8 GB for a total of 24GB.

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Feb 12, 2017 01:43:41   #
afischman
 
jeep_daddy wrote:
I just bought the Dell 8910 from Costco and it has pretty much the same specs. Core i7-6700 4GHz, 256GB SSD (M.2), 2TB 7200RPM, 24GB ram, 2GB video card, a bunch of USB3, USB3.1, USB3.1C, USB2, BlueRay and because I got it at Costco it has 2 yr warranty. It's awesome. I just added another 240GB SSD

What I really like about it is that you don't need any tools to open the case up. It's got a swing away power supply that makes it easier to get to the components. The cpu had a bunch of tubes going to it from the fan so I'm assuming that it's liquid cooled. There are only 2 expansion slots available, one with quite a few pins and another very small one. I don't know exactly what they are called these days.

I read a lot of the reviews on the XPS but many don't have the same specs and I think some of them were slow or noisy. Mine is neither slow or noisy. I can only hear a slight whisper of the fans and it's not slow. It boots up in about 30 seconds and shuts down even faster. About the only thing I don't like about it is the cheap keyboard and when it goes to sleep you must push the on/off button to wake it up. Moving the mouse or hitting a key doesn't wake it up.

When installing programs on your computer, think about putting only programs that you really need or want to run fast on the boot drive and put the rest of the non essential programs on the D drive or on another SSD. I've got Photoshop CC, Lightroom CC and Microsoft Office on the boot drive. A few of my other programs installed on the boot drive because they didn't give me a choice. But those that did give me a choice I put on the 2TB hard drive. I've still got 55% of the boot drive left and it's only a 256GB SSD. That's the same size HD I had in my other computer and I never ran out. Just don't put pictures or music on the boot drive. Use other drives for data.
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One thing to consider when installing programs on drives other than C:/ is the ability to backup and restore the C:/ drive. Remember that even though programs may be installed on drives other than C:/, the Windows Registry which is on C:/ is updated. If you backup C:/ without backing up the other drives and then need to restore C:/ later for whatever reason, and do not restore the other drive too, you will have a corrupted registry. It is advisable to install all programs on the C:/ drive to guarantee that system backups and restores can be done successfully. All data can and should be stored on drives other than C:/ to ensure that a C:/ drive restore does not affect the data.

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Feb 12, 2017 01:52:08   #
afischman
 
Ignore - duplicate

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