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Hello friends, Hope all is safe & Well!
Finally, getting a new computer, and want your kind recommendations for heavy lifting. Meaning what are PC Specs I should look for?
Dealing with large sets of data, and rely a lot on:
1. Power Pivot Tables
2. Power Query
Your kind feedback is needed and really appreciated!
Posted : 02/10/2020 10:50 am
Hi Nawaf,
PC specs are only part of the story. Performance in PP and PQ will be affected by things like:
- A poorly designed data model
- Writing your own SQL queries against a database (breaking query folding)
- Non-optimised transformations
- ......
If I was buying a PC I'd be getting:
- As much RAM as possible - minimum 16GB
- As much hard disk space as possible and preferably Solid State Drives - disks are very cheap although SSD's are more expensive.
- Fastest CPU you can afford
- Windows 10 64-bit, Office 64-bit
I'm currently running Windows 10, 64 bit Office, 16GB RAM, Intel i5-4590 3.3GHz and don't have any issues.
Regards
Phil
Posted : 02/10/2020 9:08 pm
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Thank you very much!
Posted : 06/10/2020 5:24 am
