High spec pc required for Excel modelling

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Hi all,

I need a spec for a machine to excel data modelling using this to model excel files in excess of 200mb each.

The vendor has advised a quad core pc with ~20gb of ram.

Any recommendations please?
Thanks

 

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No budget limit really, but in excess of 2k would be hard to justify.

Base unit only. No os needed.

 

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Thank you. Have been looking at the prebuilt stuff available and this is over half the price.

We could even knock the 2tb hdd off, and drop the SSD to a 80gb or so. We will probably copy the file down to the pc over the network and then perform the calculations and put it back on the filer to ensure it is backed up etc.

They are using Xeon's though.

edit: If we switched to the Z68XP-UD3P-B3, we do do away with the graphics card and use a hdmi to dvi convertor? Its only displaying excel, so not sure if we need a high powered gfx card?

 

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Hmm gonna go read about what CUDA is

Thanks guys