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Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 5:22 PM, wabe <wabenbau@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I'm using an AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor. I bought it six or seven |
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>> years ago when it was brand-new. It still works to my satisfaction. But |
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>> of course recent CPUs (for example AMD Ryzen) are much faster. Therefore |
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>> I wanna buy an AMD Threadripper next year. This should be an enormous |
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>> speedup. :-) |
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> Having just upgraded one of those to a Ryzen 5 1600 I can tell you |
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> that besides tripling your kernel build speeds, it will also sound |
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> less like a hair dryer and make your room feel less like it has a |
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> space heater inside. |
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My old rig, AMD 2500+ CPU with about 3 or 4GBs of ram. My new rig, AMD |
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Phenom II X4 955 with 16GBs of ram. My old rig, pulled about 400 watts |
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from the wall, while idle. My new rig, pulls about 160 watts idle and |
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that includes monitor, router and all. I don't think my little speakers |
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are plugged into the UPS. Thing is, my new rig according to my math is |
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almost 10 times as fast. It has a lot more ram and more drives than the |
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old rig. |
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More to your point, my old rig used 80mm fans. It had lots of them. |
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CPU, several on the case including some I added myself. It made some |
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noise for sure. My new case is a Cooler Master HAF-932. It has those |
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200mm fans which move a lot of air but turn pretty slowly, which means |
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quiet. Thing is, the newer and faster rig runs cooler, quieter and |
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faster than the old rig by far. |
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Isn't it amazing how efficient and fast newer computers are? It's |
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almost worth the energy saving to upgrade. If a person runs their |
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system 24/7, that is even more reason. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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