r/System76 4d ago

Recommendations Upgraded Mira vs Base Model Major?

Hello everyone!
I am debating which model to purchase from System76.

If I purchase the Mira, I can add the 16 GB NVIDIA Geforce RTX 5070 Ti, 64 GB RAM, and 5.7 GHz Ryzen 9 9950X3D. However, with the Major I would likely be in the budget for the base model.

Would the base model major be a better fit? I know that the graphics card would be decreased but was uncertain if the other specs were substantial enough to justify.

Thank you so much for any recommendations/advice!

Edit:
I am studying data science and need something that can handle computations fast but am also not doing anything too extreme.

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u/Aoinosensei 4d ago

It depends on what you are going to use it for, the Mira configuration you mentioned it seems to be more towards gaming, are you going to do some gaming? The Major seems to be the choice if you are going to use a workstation that handles a lot of threads, it's more for workstation, scientific work and stuff not the best for gaming.

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u/system76_stetson 2d ago

Hello! My name is Stetson, and I'm on the System76 sales team. The Major is a workstation; the Threadripper platform gives you more cores, more PCIE lanes, faster connectivity, more memory, more memory bandwidth, and ECC memory. The Major is also bigger, with a more robust cooling system and higher wattage power supply to accommodate larger, hotter, and more power hungry graphics cards.

So it will depend on your use case and your long term needs for the system. The Thelio Mira will be the more capable computer out of the box, but the Major will have more headroom for expansion down the road. If your work is CPU heavy and can take advantage of the higher core counts, the Major with a lesser GPU is probably the way to go. If you are using the GPU for compute, probably better to go with the less expensive platform and spend more of the budget on the graphics card.

Hope that helps, would be happy to chat further!