Ended up as of today at this very minute what you see below…
Specs White: Xeon E5 – 2650 v2 / X79 MB / DDR3 – 32GB RAM / 512GB SSD / RX 560 4GB / 600W PSU / Windows OS / Ms Office / Wi-Fi / Warranty 1 year
Specs Black: Xeon E5 – 2680 v3 / X99 MB / DDR4 – 64GB RAM / 256GB SSD / RX 580 4GB / 850W PSU / Windows OS / Ms Office / Wi-Fi / Warranty ~0~ year
Mrs. White was 38,000 rubles and Mr. Black cost me myself to put together 40,000 plus rubles in parts. So the same in the end…
Why?
Biggest issue is RAM. DDR3 is dirt cheap (700 rubles a 16GB stick)and DDR4 (was 17,000 for 2 sticks of 16GB) 34,000 rubles just for RAM on Mr. Black. CPU, Motherboard and cooling systems are virtually the same and cost literally nothing. Under 10,000 rubles for MB, video card, WiFi dongle, etc etc…
and an other high expense is… SSD’s are screaming in price. A 256GB decent speed SSD is 15,000 rubles. Mrs. White has a 25,000 ruble very very decent speed SSD in her. Color me Surprised!
Mrs. White is a damn good deal and the X79 board is high quality. Bottle necks? None…
Mr. Black is a low level X99 board and it is a board that I had to do work on to get up and running. I actually had to solder on this board. But it has inherited bottle necks in the X99 chip set and runs only a bit better than the X79 board. Maybe some my fault? I resurrected this board. CPU is where the two devices part ways…
The company that we bought the white computer at was located upon Wildberries Internet store and called Robocomp. The computer came fancy, but I do not like all the lights and stuff so I gathered stock items for future builds and made Mrs. White lean and mean…
The case for the black computer came from Ozon and is actually a very very nice case. Also dirt cheap. RAM, motherboard I had and spent a fortune years ago upon. But prices are higher now. Yet all in all I have two wonderful fast computers…
Mrs. White is my stable never changing Windows 11 IOT Enterprise LTSC and is my workhorse computer. Buying it as a pre-built was something I just don’t do and it made me happy. Very nice unit and very fast actually. The RX 560 VC and the 2650 v2 CPU seem to live very happy upon the well made Chinese MB. I am getting ready to purchase 32 more GB of RAM and that will max her out…
Mr. Black never has the same OS and he is a Linux fan one day and a Windows lover the next and sometimes he embraces both in many variety of ways. Dual booting, virtualization and whatnot. The video card actually is overkill, yet that card is easily accepted by anything that I throw at it OS wise. 64 GB of RAM (it will hold over a terabyte) is perfect for everything and anything I do…
Actually Mr. Black is all around more powerful than Mrs. White. Just don’t tell Mrs. White that. As long as she is happy…
If you are not having fun you are doing something wrong.” – Groucho Marx
Oh and one last thing. Little Blue (named because he has a blue bow tie) is a family member and good luck charm. He has his own computer, bed, and whatnot’s. So, no picking on Little Blue! 🙂
WtR
