I'll start with one in a few days. Studied computer science and am planning to get a new PC. I already have a laptop that still works perfectly, but I would still like a stand PC on which I can work properly.
I already have some programming experience and have been considering switching to Linux. Does anyone have any experience of the demands placed on computing power and the operating system in computer science studies? Is it "a good idea" to switch to Linux? Or does it make more sense to install Linux next to Windows?
Is it possible to get a decent PC in the price range around 500 euro? I'm happy to receive advice and am open to suggestions.
You don't need a particularly powerful computer for your studies. Not for Linux either.
However, if you should come up with the idea of wanting to play a game at some point, a PC with a 3400g is ideal. The Vega 11 as an internal graphics unit is far more powerful than most people would expect, and the process itself is not that weak, so you shouldn't have any problems.
However, such PCs cost more than 600, the prices are currently abnormal.
The hardware prices are unfortunately abnormal at the moment for 500 euro you are currently getting what would actually be worth 400 euro.
This is a pretty high-end office PC that is definitely enough for your purposes.
https://hardwarerat.de/...b/1tb?c=79
But if you want to play something with it, I would recommend you to look for it on the same page in the Gaming PC category.
As long as you just want to work and program with it, a decent OFFICE PC will do. It doesn't even need a separate graphics card, an on-board / APU solution is sufficient.
It doesn't have to be the latest generation of computers either, if you can get one used cheaply, that's perfectly fine.
No Windows is required for the programming itself, the IDE environments are also available for Linux. But I still recommend installing Windows and MS Office as well, because MS Office is often used for homework and presentations. Of course you can use Open Office under Linux, but this can lead to conversion and display errors if only one computer with MS Office is available for display or presentation.
You can find used computers at E-Bay and Co. Or at:
https://www.gebrauchtcomputer24.de/computer.html?pc_cpu=654_723
These are office devices that can hardly or not at all later be upgraded to a gaming PC. For your studies, please note that your data should be saved on a different data carrier, often and regularly; data loss is very annoying and can cause a lot of annoyance.
You may only know the performance of Intel's IGPUs. The Vega 11 is enough for everything.
It's nice that it has power, but you simply can't use it.
Tensorflow (and other frameworks) depend on cuda. And Vega 11 can't do a cuda.
So I specifically said Nvidia, because with an AMD card you might be stupid.
I buy my laptops from the German dealer IXSOFT. There are PCs and laptops at a fair price in all performance classes. If you click Windows as the second operating system, you will get Linux (1 of 12) and Win installed ready for use.
Where would you order a PC?
I looked around a little. What do you say? :
The RAM is not specified, which is why it will be the cheapest and slowest there's. Instead of the 500 gig hard drive, it should be a 1 TB hard drive. Or even better two SSDs, one for the operating system and the like, one for everything else.
As a complete ready-made PC it will be difficult to find, so you will need a website where you can at least vary the offers. Or you can look on Ebay because there's a huge selection of ready-made PCs.
But as someone who wants to study computer science, you should really be able to assemble the PC yourself from individual parts. Then you don't need any ready-made offers.
