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Am 24.06.2010 02:25, schrieb Mark Knecht: |
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> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger |
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>> How do you use up 24 gigs of DRAM? Just tell me, I would like to |
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>> justify that for me as well ;-) |
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> 5 copies of Win7 running in vmware VMs. Each VM gets 20GB of RAID0, |
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> 2 processors and 4GB of RAM. That's 100GB, 20GB DRAM and 10 threads |
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> total. I then have 2 i7-980X threads & 4GB DRAM for running Gentoo |
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> as the host. Gentoo runs on RAID1 and I have an additional RAID1 |
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> which I use to back up the RAID0 daily. |
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I see. That's way more than I need here, so I will get through with 8 GB |
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DRAM easily ... |
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> Yeah, dual boot is what I'm doing with the i5-661. The i7-980X only |
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> runs Gentoo and if I need Windows it's in the 5 VMs described above. |
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> The 980X is expensive to run. It's got 5 hard drives in it (2 for |
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> RAID0, 3 for RAID1) plus the processor and all that memory burns |
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> over 300W at idle. |
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Also too expensive and big for me. I think I will go for the i5 if I |
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decide to upgrade. |
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Thanks, S |
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