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On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:57:00 +0100 |
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> Branko Badrljica <brankob@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Given your CPU choices, it is obvious that you are ignoring i7, I |
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>> suspect beacise the price. |
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> Correct. After all even the platform I'm targeting at is an overkill |
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> for my Home desktop needs. |
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>> In that case, I think you should reconsider AMD. I have a couple of |
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>> Phenoms, which work really fine with Gentoo. |
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>> However, if its lower frequency and smaller cache of 9850 and 9950 is |
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>> what bothers you, you should consider Deneb, which is to come out any |
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>> day now. |
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> I was told to wait for "the new Phenom", though the guy said rumor has |
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> it the release will be in Jan or Feb next year. Anyways, it doesn't |
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> matter for me. I had Athlon-XP, now I'm with a Sempron. It's time to |
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> get an Intel for a change. I hope a CPU like those I target at will be |
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> more than enough for my computing needs for the next 2 or 3 |
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> years. |
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> So, my questions still remain: |
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> - q6600, e8400 or q8200? Which is faster after overclock with plain |
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> air cooling and plain mid-tower box? |
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> - what mobo should I take for it |
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> - what kind of ddr2 should I get |
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I personally run an Asus Maximus board with a Q6600 OC'd to 3.4G & 8 |
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gigs of DDR2 800. That said theres little reason to run a quad core |
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for just desktop type stuff so my suggestion would be to go with the |
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E8400 & some low latency DDR2 1066 or 1200. 4 GHz is typically |
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obtainable with that CPU so you don't want the RAM to be your limiting |
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factor. The P5K series is based on the older P35 chipset, you should |
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prolly go with the P45 based series - P5Q. The only differences |
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between Pro, -E, Deluxe, etc models are extra ports & bling. Just |
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figure out if you need extra wifi or sata ports or esata then go with |
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the cheapest model that meets your needs. |
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A lot of people on this list (myself included) use a tmpfs to speed up |
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compilations, a good motivator for 4 gigs of RAM if you can handle it. |
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