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Originally Posted by Meelapo
Okay....good-ish news. Having my work PC be the same as my gaming PC is not allowing for the greatest work/life balance. So here's what I'm looking at. Feedback is welcome:
GPU: GTX 3080 (whenever I can find one)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING
RAM: Corsair Vengeance (taking from my current Windows PC...DDR-3400)
Power Supply: EVGA Super Nova 850 P2 Platinum (taking from my current Windows PC)
Hard Drives: (mixed...taking from my current Windows PC)
Monitor: Alienware AW3821DW
I'm not super up-to-date with CPU and motherboard trends and the two I picked seemed fairly decent. Again, open to suggestions. And also, tips on how to find a GTX 3080!
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I don't know what your current system specs are or if you do any professional work that requires GPU horsepower (CAD, 3D modeling, etc.), but I'm actually in the same boat. I have my gaming PC that doubles as a main work PC, and my Surface Book 2 is my corporate asset that I use for secure access.
My solution is this:
- Install Hyper-V (Control Panel > Programs > Turn Windows features on or off > check 'Hyper-V' and everything in its subtree)
- Create a virtual machine with 3 processor cores, 70 GB of disk space, and 4 GB of RAM (base amount, it can dynamically scale up to 12 GB if needed)
- Install Windows, join to the corporate Azure AD, install all my necessary apps
- At the end of the work day, close or (preferably) shut-down the VM
That way, you can have a full screen (or windowed) workstation experience on a nice large monitor, then when you're done you just close it down like any other application and that's the end of it. Full disclosure, I have 32 GB of memory so I have no qualms assigning the thing 12 GB of RAM. If you've only got 16 GB then 8 GB is probably a safe maximum, and less than that I probably wouldn't try it.