I looked into Gamer machines recently, am I am out of date on this area!
I am interested in a machine to do cslculations and to collect data rapidly.
The speed requirement for the gamers is graphics-oriented for "Call to Duty" and other virtual reality shoot em up games. BUT...The CPU speed is useful for running an interpreted language like Python.
Minus the graphics coprocessors, the typical machines had:
3-4 ghz cpu's. The Intel I7 seems the fastest, probably overkill.Low cost solid state drives 128gB-1TB, such as the Sandisk or Samsung. These are low cost; the Sandisk 256 gB is $159. (from my maybe faulty memory.)
DDR3 main memory, SATA3 6 gB/s data transfer with SSD.
Again, these are a SW developer's joy, as memory I/O becomes 1000X faster than disk. Someone here mentioned memory-mapped arrays, and even Python file io gets a big boost. This obviously includes DB access. As well, programming like IPython become more useful. Neural net training greatly sped up.
Final Question
Concerns the ADC board. This I have to research. If anyone has any insights into this area, I would appreciate.
jb