{"id":384,"date":"2011-12-11T18:49:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T18:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/?guid=c733e38ef9969181b77c6c6581775326"},"modified":"2011-12-11T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T18:50:00","slug":"geek-advice-desktop-build-system-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2011\/12\/geek-advice-desktop-build-system-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Advice: Desktop Build System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sending the below mail to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aria.co.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Aria<\/a>; anything I&#8217;ve forgotten? I&#8217;m basically looking for a desktop-format box with plenty of RAM and CPU to run VMs and use for word processing, DTP etc. I&#8217;d like it to be quiet most of the time, but be able to deal with multiple VMs when the occasion calls for it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering if you can help me. I am looking to buy a new desktop system. I have particular requirements which don&#8217;t seem to be met by your pre-built systems, but I&#8217;m not confident about trying to match components for a working system.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, I&#8217;m looking for a desktop machine which I will be using as a sort of home server. I won&#8217;t be using it for gaming. I&#8217;m a network admin and will be using virtual machines to experiment with different setups.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mininum quad core CPU (or 2 dual-core) with hardware-accelerated virtualisation (VT)<\/li>\n<li>Min. 8GB RAM, upgradeable to 16 or 32GB<\/li>\n<li>No hard disks (I have these already)<\/li>\n<li>Intelligent power-saving including PSU<\/li>\n<li>Multiple on-board SATA 2 connectors<\/li>\n<li>On-board ethernet<\/li>\n<li>Intel on-board graphics<\/li>\n<li>22&#8243; or 24&#8243; 1920&#215;1080 monitor<\/li>\n<li>Ergonomic keyboard (wired)<\/li>\n<li>Mouse (wired)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can you recommend a system or set of components that would meet these requirements?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sending the below mail to Aria; anything I&#8217;ve forgotten? I&#8217;m basically looking for a desktop-format box with plenty of RAM and CPU to run VMs and use for word processing, DTP etc. I&#8217;d like it to be quiet most of the time, but be able to deal with m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geek","category-purchases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}