Thank you. Because of your generous advice I felt confident enough to take the plunge and buy :D I opted for the 6950XT, which dropped the cost a little. My current laptop has lasted me 9 years and I'm pleased I'm going to have something that will hopefully last me the next 9/10 years (with...
Thanks for the link to your thread; it makes a lot of sense. As an aside: would I install linux mint on the same drive as my windows installation, and just use the second one for my data?
How about this monitor: ASUS XG32VC 31.5" ROG Strix, it isn't ultrawide but it would suit my needs. The...
Hi Scott,
I appreciate the time and effort you've put into this! :)
Yes, I'm programming R to process data and the work can often be sped up by running in parallel (though 16 cores is possibly more than I would need). Deep learning would be an occasional use so I can definitely compromise...
Hi Scott, thanks for your reply. It will be used for crunching data in R, and I'm looking for a significant upgrade from the HP Envy laptop I'm currently using. It would be good if I have the option of using a CUDA-enabled GPU for some deep learning, but this will be an occasional use case.
My...
Hi all,
I don't really have experience of custom builds and am looking for your advice. I'd like to get a desktop machine that performs well while gaming, and also has a large amount of RAM and processing power for some scientific computing. I've made a first pass attempt, but I didn't really...
