Hi all,
I've got a Z620 which works flawlessly, with dual Xeon E5-2620 (v.0), 24 GB of RAM (2 GB for each DIMM), Nvidia NVS 510 and Windows 11 PRO 23H2 installed. I use the workstation mostly for coding and running financial simulations through Hyper-V VMs (one VM running MS Server 2022, two VMs running Ubuntu 2404 each). I tend to work with 13-14 desktop workspaces open at the same time, each workspace dedicated to a different line of work.
I’m now considering installing HP Data Science Stack to play a bit with AI datasets and models, but with the current setup I'm obviously starting to hit the limitation of RAM (and processor speed!).
Question : how much RAM do you think it's worth adding to my workstation to work comfortably with my setup? I'm looking at this from a cost/benefit point of view: if adding, say, 128 Gb of RAM costs nearly as much as getting a second-hand Z4 or Z6 with a more recent processor, well, I may just consider skipping the RAM upgrade and go for an additional workstation 😉
What do you think?
As always, thanks for all your help!
JC