Recent content by David Siebert

What kind of productivity? For your general office work, anything will work including a laptop. Most businesses do not build productivity desktops they buy from Dell or HP. If you are talking about "Content creation" like Video editing and you are using Adobe then get an Intel with as many...

That is harder to define. What kind of productivity? CAD? or that Content Creation category? standard business tasks like using Office? Maybe web development or .net development? Or what about Embedded development using VXworks or Linux? What about FPGA work? For example, most office tasks...

Very close to what I did for a build. And yes I made sure that I was under the 1300 price without rebates this time. I went with a 770 since they are just as fast the 680s and actually a little cheaper. And I went with the BitFenix Prodigy case and an H100 cooler since Haswell seems to put out...

Thanks to the fact that computers get cheaper over time I tried to build this same system with PC parts picker. I managed to get 8GB of ram into it for under the $600 mark. PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/17KDV Price breakdown by merchant...

Here is my version of the $1200 itx build. http://pcpartpicker.com/user/lwatcdr/saved/1MTa

I could not help myself so I built my own version of this on PC parts picker. I used a different case and power supply and bumped the ram up to 8Gb and swapped the 500GB hard drive for a 120GB SSD. I can in under 650 after shipping and rebates. You could do a 64GB SSD and the 500GB drive for...