In line with this. Do not cheap out on your motherboard. It is the biggest PITA to change later. Ram. CPU. Not so bad. I would also look up lvmcache or a similar technology. This will allow you to perk up your spinning drives nicely. This will be especially handy for containers and vm's. I will +1 AMD right now with the fact they have more available pcie lanes especially in the x470 chipsets. And cores make containers and vm's happy. On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 7:21 PM Michael Butash wrote: > > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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