Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Piotr Pruszczak <p.pruszczak@××××××××.pl>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] changing AMD64 to AMD64 X2 4400
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:24:21
Message-Id: 44AD44E1.9070407@pro.onet.pl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] changing AMD64 to AMD64 X2 4400 by Richard Fish
1 I also found
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3 AMD Opteron 165 Dual Core BOX (S939)
4
5 and my question is - which one to choose ?? I want to handle with
6 low-latency software for music & mixing, like rosegarden & rest of this
7 lovely stuff ;)
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9 just question to PRACTICE - have you work on it and how do you see the
10 performance, and other practice knowledge..
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12 > However, you might want to investigate the USE flags nptl and nptlonly
13 > if you don't have them set already, and make sure your kernel supports
14 > SMP.
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16 NPTLONLY works for me just for 3 months ;)) and I'm very happy with it ;)
17 IF ANYBODY HERE DON'T HAVE THIS FLAG, in my opinion should switch the
18 system to it right now ;) it IS really much faster as POSIX compatible..
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20 > My crystal ball says that PC components get cheaper all the time, and
21 > you should just buy what you can afford when you need it. I think I
22 > paid about $900 for this exact CPU 7 months ago... :-<
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24 I gave about 170 euros, so this is not-so-bad to change it as now I can
25 got 80 euros for it ;)
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