A PC for a developer + gamer

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I'm trying to figure out the best system for me. Games I play are pretty limited to CSS/TF2 and WoW.

I also run a bunch of IDEs for developing various apps, Visual Studio, SQL managment, Flex Builder 3, Flash CS3, photoshop CS3, illustrator CS3. Any of those can go up to 400-500 meg of memory. Normally will have at least 2 IDE's up at once, but often 3.

I should eventually get a server of my own, but i run IIS with asp, php, and coldfusion on top

Firefox, testing a lot of pages over time eventually bloats to another 300-400megs of memory


I'm looking to keep my multi-tasking going strong and get rid of that delay when I minimize/maximize an app, switch an app to another monitor via UltraMon (run 3 monitors) or they delay when starting up an app


Xeons the best for multitask or is that overkill?

are nvidia quadro's of value here or just a high end geforce enough. (I dont do any 3d modeling work)


as this is my home office/play computer budget can be fairly high as I use it 12hr+ a day

 

[CTho9305]

I'm looking to keep my multi-tasking going strong and get rid of that delay when I minimize/maximize an app, switch an app to another monitor via UltraMon (run 3 monitors) or they delay when starting up an app

That's probably a RAM issue more than a CPU issue. In general it sounds like any box with enough RAM will do what you need.

are nvidia quadro's of value here or just a high end geforce enough. (I dont do any 3d modeling work)

Don't waste money on the Quadro then.

 

[Markfw]

Two things I suggest, a quad-core, and the more ram the better, 8 gig.....A Q6600 and 8 gig would probably do you right.

As for a video card, try the video forum, they are better there on that subject.

 

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for 8gig ram I would need windows 64 bit correct?


I think I got the answer on video (sorry for wrong forum though..)