buying a powerful pc

[shophoney]

Hi. I’m looking to replace our computer at the office. It is currently a Xeon processor with 32 gigs of RAM. We connect to a sql server that is located on site and the current Excel file size is 100 MB. I’m looking to get a very powerful system as we live inside excel numbercrunching. What would be the best configuration to get should I put more money into ram moving up to 64 GB. Or processor getting more cores as I’m looking to spend $2500.


I was going to purchase a dell Xeon processor and by the memory aftermarket from Amazon I currently already own plenty of new SSD drives.

 

[mole999]

The OS is important, 64bit essential to make the use of the ram. Systems are as fast as the slowest component (mismatched RAM will drive . I always thought Xeon was a server style processor, To get excel to move that should be 64 bit also, but 32bit apps generally won't work unless coded for 64, and your bespoke code would have to support that environment.

 

[shophoney]

Given that I already have 32gb of Ram. I would have to be on 64bit already.

I need to speed up the processing and refresh process. It takes about 20min to pull in all the data from our sql database.

powerquery is pulling 3 years worth of data into the workbook.

Thanks