Hi everybody,

A while ago, I was conducting a study on the national health system and had to crunch huge amount of data sets (up to 700k rows and 12 columns of data).

My computer crashed on numerous occasions when processing the data (blue screen) but otherwise it would take hours for the data processing to take place.

I am once again about to embark on a similiar study, except maybe this time it is bigger...

I was thinking of getting a new computer to work on these data but what kind of specs do you guys recommend a computer to have in order to do the work that I do?

My current computer has 16GB of Ram, 150GB of SSD, and 2.3Ghz processor (8CPUs) - and it is still crashing.

Any suggestions? Do you think that Excel is the right program for this job?