<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Oli<div><br></div><div>Ill be using the system for general tasks, photoshop and possibly a few games - haven't played any for a long time. oH ill be running some vm's too</div><div><br></div><div>You've just made me decide to go price up an i5 system now lol<br><div><div><br></div><div>Im going to buy a pi too for running an openvpn gateway for my network :P</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Andy</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On 6 Feb 2013, at 09:35, Oliver Burnett-Hall <<a href="mailto:olly@burnett-hall.co.uk">olly@burnett-hall.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr">On 4 Feb 2013 07:56, "andrew" <<a href="mailto:andrewglass3@gmail.com">andrewglass3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> My inner nerd says i7 lol what do you guys think?</p><p dir="ltr">I can't give you any advice on different motherboards or processors (my knowledge of these is several years out of date), but what I strongly recommend I'd working out your budget first and making sure you stick to it.</p><p dir="ltr">You'll always be able to spend a bit more to get something better, but if you go down that road that you'll end up with a system that's far more powerful and far more expensive than you need.</p><p dir="ltr">Remember that for general computing you could probably get away with using a Raspberry Pi these days, so you shouldn't need to spend too much.</p><p dir="ltr">- olly</p>
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