Recent content by brianlanning

I was originally considering a threadripper because of the number of available lanes. But the higher clock speeds of something like the 8086k are really seductive. I'm wondering which would feel faster in day to day development. To make the situation more complicated, I'm also considering m.2...

I'm getting ready to build a development system. I'm thinking to use an i7-8086k. Is there an ATX motherboard that everyone seems to love? Cost matters less to me than performance, features, reliability, and upgradability. I noticed that a lot of them don't have thunderbolt 3 so maybe that...

I'm getting ready to build an ITX/AMD machine that's for development. So it will run SQL Server, Oracle, IIS, and maybe some utilities like Skype, gmail, facebook, winamp, automated backups, etc. So graphics performance is *not* important for this machine. I was comparing APUs and CPUs. And...