What are the specs of your programming machine?

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I'm interested in this just to get a general idea of what most programmers consider essential.

I have the following:

Intel 7900X @ 4.4Ghz
64GB of RAM
1TB NVMe SSD
512GB SATA SSD
4TB HDD
External USB 3.1 512GB SSD
Nvidia 1080Ti GPU
 
chroniclard said:
Ryzen 3900X
16gb of RAM (seems fine for my usage but will upgrade to 32 at some point)
3080 FE RTX (Is also my gaming machine)
Various NVME/SSD drives.
I use dual boot Windows, so one NVME drive is gaming boot, one SSD is work boot. I did this so that I dont have loads of programs on the gaming boot(SQL Server, Rabbit MQ, Node JS, Visual studio etc etc)
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Dual boot sounds reasonable for that use case. I have a Windows 10 Pro virtual machine which I use for Microsoft Office. I know Libre Office is good and all but I've been using Microsoft Office for so long I just can't give it up. Plus since I pay for the business version the web apps allow me to use it on my main Linux install if I want to make any changes.
 
chroniclard said:
At least 2 monitors is an essential though when you have loads of code/programs open. :p Have a 1440p, 1080p and an old 1200p screen.
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I used to have three monitors but I had to downgrade to one as I just don't have the room for a desk big enough for three monitors. Hopefully, I'll move at some point and rejoin the multiple monitor club. As a workaround, I've been using KDE virtual desktops.
 
Hades said:
EDIT: I love the superwidescreen. It's great for games but when coding I can put the IDE on one side and other windows such as a browser on the other half.
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I feel like super widescreen monitors will be much better when new ones come out with higher resolutions. I'm still waiting for my perfect monitor to come out. For the time being, I'll stick to my 27" 4k monitor with Freesync.
 
Rroff said:
I use the laptop in my sig of similar spec a fair bit for coding - i7 3610QM, 16GB, GTX 675M - never feels slow.
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That makes me feel better because I need a new laptop and have been worried that the ones in my price range might feel a bit slow for development work. I mainly use the JetBrains IDEs for my programming and run OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
 
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