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On December 21, 2018 12:27:28 AM UTC, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>Dale wrote: |
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>> J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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>>> On December 20, 2018 11:45:29 AM UTC, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> |
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>wrote: |
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>>> Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>>> Next upgrade idea: |
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>>> - mainboard with NVME slot |
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>>> - NVME drive for your OS. |
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>>> Your CPU and memory will be the next bottleneck :) |
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>>> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. |
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>> Yea. I looked into rebuilding from scratch, less the case of |
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>course. |
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>> I'm just not sure it would be worth the speed increase. The biggest |
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>> things I needed, more drive space and more memory. The CPU was just |
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>> on sale. Hard to beat $75.00 for a 8 core CPU running at over 4GHz. |
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>> Right now, it's plenty fast. I may consider it after I do some other |
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>> things tho. I plan to do a emerge -e world before to long. I wanted |
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>> to let the new CPU compound sort of get set in. |
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>> I might add, the new video card is way overpowered for what I do. |
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>> LOL Most of the time, it maxes out at about 10% of its power and |
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>less |
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>> than 10% for memory usage. I really can't tell much difference from |
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>> my old 220 to this new 650 series. The biggest difference, the 650 |
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>> runs much cooler. I just hope it doesn't get bored and go to sleep. |
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>> ;-) Oh, when I run glxgears at full screen, it still only goes to |
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>> about 60%. It warms up a little but not a whole lot. |
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>> Now to go see what a NVME drive is. I don't recall ever hearing of |
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>> those. Sounds interesting. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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>OMG. Those things are fast. Those things make a sata drive look like |
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>snail or something and let's not mention the old IDE drives. Thing is, |
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>I've got a 160GB drive for the OS itself right now. Even a 256GB one |
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>of |
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>those isn't to bad price wise. The OS is really all I'd need on that |
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>thing anyway. The sata drives are plenty fast enough for watching |
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>videos etc. I wonder, how much faster would emerges go on those |
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>things? One wouldn't even need portage's work directory on tmpfs with |
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>that. |
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>Wow!!! |
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>Dale |
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>:-) :-) |
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Considering that they, like all SSDs have a limited write cycle, I only use mine for the compiled software. I still use a tmpfs for compiling. |
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Joost |
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