New workstation maybe. Need decent opinions.
Hello,
First of all sorry if I'm off-topic with this question but I'm not into hardware and I'm trying to get a grip of what would be good before I go and buy something to find out that it was a mistake after all.
I'm currently running on an i3 laptop with 4gb mem. I recently started contributing on WordPress and the guys there work with a Vagrant setup etc. As you can understand running VVV and PhpStorm together for my current pc is a mess as I'm usually waiting 5+mins to even work with VCS and built diffs or even make a search in the whole project at some points.
I've found this bargain ( I think ) workstation that goes like:
HP Workstation Z620
2 x Intel Xeon Hexa Core E5 2620 2 Ghz (24 threads total / 30M cache) (Up to 2.5 Ghz)
nVidia Quadro NVS300 512MB PCI-E ( total 2 x vga 2 x dvi ) ( I don't care about graphics that much but it will be nice having a 3rd screen finally! )
8gb DDR3 ECC ( up to 192gb ) ( I will probably boost it from the start to 16gb )
500gb ssd
That thing goes for 600 euro and I'm about to get it but I had to ask for opinions as I have no clue.
( I wouldn't say the price but there's no other way to get a decent reply I guess ).
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My main question is would it support running 1 instance of vagrant + phpstorm without problems and slow-downs ?
I'm not into gaming or whatever else I just want to code without having headaches from waiting 10 minutes for a save that could end up in a crash and lose everything :) .
That's all I ask pretty much as my i3 is starting to get on my nerves with all this lagging and crashing.
Sorry again if I'm off-topic.
Best regards,
Konstantinos
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Hello,
This looks like a very decent pro config.
Main things that PhpStorm need are CPU and SSD - these two things affects the performance in the most crucial way. CPU horsepower affects the speed of tasks completion such as indexing and similar. SSD provides good IOPS for indexing project files fast. RAM is important but not as much as two others - note that default PhpStorm's limit is 750MB RAM and this might be not enough for large projects so increasing this limit would be the first step in assuring yourself from performance drops.