How to optimize speed for a developer's PC working with .Net technology?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

manpreet 2 years ago

Generically, and in no particular order:

• Lots of Memory - to take best advantage you'll want to use Virtual Machines so you'll need a lot of RAM (8Gb and up)
• Lots of cores - you're inherently running multiple apps concurrently so even if the individual applications don't take advantage of the multiple cores the system will benefit.
• Fast disks - compiling/building is diskbound
• Finally a decent graphics card - doesn't have to be state of the art by any means but there's a speed/cost sweetspot on latest but one or latest but two GPUs that will get you a lot of speed at a relatively budget price. Don't forget you want to drive at least two monitors (the option for a 3rd would be nice, but there are other ways!). WPF - used in Expression and VS2k10 amongst other things - and Aero in Windows 7 take advantage of the GPU

Look at your budget and look at one or two steps back from the bleeding edge (or for processors from the top of the range) and you should be able to do quite well.

Everything else will dictate the demands of power supply etc.

Strictly I shouldn't mention the quantity of RAM as that's a time specific answer (8 is good now, more will be appropriate later).