And dust

For what your doing, a 6 core processor like what you have should be good. I have a 12 core/24 thread but that's because I use mine for my graduate workstation besides gaming. Eventually you could upgrade it to the upcoming 5000 CPUs bit what you have is probably good for what you need. I'd upgrade the GPU before the CPU.

If there's no intake fans on the underside of the pc it will be ok

i9?

there is no intake under

What is 1 of the best with a good price

What kind of graduate work?

AMD 3900x

I'm Cyber Security with a specialization in network security.

Man I really need to start following those lessons of my

Have you seen Mr Robot? Most accurate depiction of "hacking" ive seen in a show

I haven't, don't really have much time to watch TV.

Understandable; do you need to get Security+ Cert?

SYO-401 i think

I've looked into it but I don't get my Master's till May and I'm not going to be going into corporate right after that because I have left over grant money I'm going straight into a PHD.

Danng nice

Certificates are only good for a few years so don't want to jump the gun on it.

What are you doing with that many cores? Virtualization or pen testing?

Yeah I think my security + cert just expired this year. good for 3 years I think

Luckily I got out of govt defense contracting so I dont need to go through that god awful process again to get sec+

Lots of virtualization but also I'm working on next generation networking technology so I have to keep different virtual networks virtualized for different tests. Lots of the works requires me to publish large amounts of data to the virtual network which takes lots of compute and RAM which is why I have 64 GB of RAM.

ayy I just upgraded mine to 64gb as well

Just a i7 tho

No fancy rgbs

Dusty as hek

Much dust

Eventually my lab on campus should have a full rack of servers and 100 gb networking equipment for me to work off of but with COVID the campus is dragging their feet.

You should clean it

I know but who has the time

Just a can of air and a microfiber cloth to get the fan blades

I could make some more half ass excuses but you right

Jeez these chromium apps are memory hungry

That's why I hate electron

I'm literally not even running anything intensive and I have 15GB of ram being used

My laptop hated me when I was grading at the end of the semester. I was grading any free time I had about 80 student programing projects and while my laptop had 16 GB of RAM I was maxing that and using about another 6 GB of SWAP.

What lang?

Most students did python but some C and C++.

I always wondered if the ta's actually run the programs or just look at source

I'm doing part time master's software dev