> I don't think Intel boxen (nucs) are upgradable very much. Not much outside of ram or disk. If you want a real system for expansion, get a real atx form-factor system. If you need a very specific use-case, get a nuc, pi, or other form-factor. If a general desktop, buy as big as you can afford, and leave some room for expansion - just start with a standard atx if your first time. If you want gaming, throw money at the video card, with moderate ram (8-32gb). If you want to do more virtual builds as you said with docker and vagrant, leveraging virtualbox or qemu/kvm, go for more 16-128gb of ram. Get as many cores and as fast a cpu as you can afford with them, plus as much ram as you expect you need. I do both gaming and using mine as a server. I tossed the 1070GTX in it, and 128gb of ram with 20 cores, a few M.2 disks, and I want for little. I game a lot, and run whole domains and ecosystems of vendor appliances internally as vm's on it, and it chugs along in most cases. I added some left-over ssd's and spinners I put things like games and non-essential vm's on, just in case they die, which I anticipate they will do as most are orphans from a like-mate disks already dearly departed. Surprisingly, gaming hard on it and running a half to full dozen vm's or more on it do little generally to shake it. I'd not expect a typical windoze box to handle anything like this, power of linux imho. If anything crashes at all, it's usually the DE compositor freaking out after a few months of uptime. /me coughs "Thanks KDE/Cinnamon." -mb On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 6:34 PM Ed wrote: > I prefer an AMD based motherboard, more cores is important with > containers, and the new Nvidia 1660 is looking good - more research is > needed beyond that - also https://camelcamelcamel.com can be helpful. > > I don't think Intel boxen (nucs) are upgradable very much. > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 4:52 PM Adam Mercer wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 7:47 AM Aaron Jones wrote: > > > > > Times have changed. Most stuff works out of the box with little > tinkering. What do you plan to do with the box? > > > > Good to hear. It'll be mostly used for development work, so I'll be > > using Docker and Vagrant quite a bit. I'll probably be doing a bit of > > gaming on the box, nothing fancy but I'd like a reasonable graphics > > card. > > > > > Space requirements? > > > > > > I use multiple Intel NUCS and I love them but if you are looking for a > behemoth box to support your 50 card collection of ASICS, well I can point > you that way too. > > > > I'd been looking at NUCS but didn't know how upgradable they were. > > > > Cheers > > > > Adam > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss