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Computer Specs of PQ / P.Pivot & Heavy Lifting.
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Nawaf H H AlTaher
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October 2, 2020 - 12:50 am
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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!

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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

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Thank you very much!

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