Hey there folks, been a long time viewer of the channel and im starting Comp Sci at University on Wednesday and I am looking to build a new workstation / Daily machine to help me speed my workflow up WIth Android Studio and VM’s for testing my Code.
My side hussle is Android / IOS development for a local small companies and compile multiple times as im not the best fixing code xD
and at Uni I am doing CompSci mainly software dev and networking and feel like i need more umph as my system lags hard when doing said things and just looking for help to get a new system up and running as its BSOD too most of the time whats not viable for me to use all the time now for when I am studying.
I have been looking at things such as Used AMD EPYC CPUs with 32 Cores and 64GB RAM although not sure i should go this route when i can go to something like a 7950X with 64GB DDR5 what i assume would help me more than octo channel DDR4 for code?
Current System Specs:
Core i5-10500
32GB 3100MHz DDR4
RTX A5000 GPU
6x SSD SATA Storage with 990 Pro NVMe for boot drive
Scaling up to Epyc platform, will offer up more leverage for VMs
Even budgeting down to Gen1 Epyc, is a whole lotta cores to make use of
64GB may be smidge tight, pending on VM/workload demands [+keeping overhead happy]
ECC RAM can be had, for relatively cheep – fill up ALL them channels!?
Do read mainboard specs, as they’re either fixed to singular Gen or 2 Gens [1/2 or 2/3]
If going AM5, this summer the 9950X will be released. That is probably the best bang for buck. Combine with the latest X[67]70 series Pro Art plus 2x48 GB ECC RAM, and you should have a damn decent upgrade for only about $1.3k or so.
EPYC is not really worth going for with your use case, you could buy it will be hot, loud and cost at least around $1.5k.
Epyc will lose you a lot of clock speed.
12 or 16 cores makes sense to have on hand for a couple of VMs and a busy host, so high-end Desktop or maybe previous Gen used workstation if your workload leans heavily into multi-threaded/core.