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FriedMule:
Hi I am planning on investing in a barebone PC + a small screen.
I know that I can "just buy the biggest I can afford but I would like to hear your opinion on a PC only for Electronic lab usage. That include USB interface, Recording of video for documentation, designing of PCB, internet access and maybe an open source office pack.

What would you recommend of CPU, i3-i5-i7 speed, Ram size and so on?

FriedMule:
Thanks, I am not planning on using the PC as oscilloscope or connected to DUT. It's more a PC for configuring test gear, record cam and search for datasheets and so on.I think I'll use win 10 but will block windows 10 from talking with MS, block google, facebook and so on, from telling anything.
For camera usage and maybe recording, do I speculate if I5 2.5MHz is not about minimum?
I do also think of saving as much power as possible but a laptop will be almost unusable since the screen and keyboard only works if I let it be open and within writing distance oor buy an extra screen and keyboard. So a barebone iss properly the least power consuming?
It looks as if a normal PC is cheaper but what about wattage?

David Hess:
For a minimum system, I would use one of the AMD Ryzen APUs which have built in graphics on a smaller motherboard which has *four* DIMM slots because you will be more limited by RAM than CPU or GPU performance.

wraper:

--- Quote from: blueskull on May 16, 2020, 03:00:08 am ---If you just need to run KiCAD, FireFox and OBS, I'd go for a quad core i3 (8350k, for instance, or equivalent AMD 3300x) and overclock it to the highest clock I can get stably. Most EDA tools favor frequency than cores.

--- End quote ---
They are not equivalent, Ryzen 3300x has much higher performance and has SMT. EDIT: it's on par with i7 7700K and even a little bit better in most tasks.

MarkF:
I have always eyed those small Intel® NUC PCs but don't have one.

   https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/boards-kits/nuc.html

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