Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus -- REBOOT OK THIS A.M.

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 03:19:53PM -0600, Dale wrote:

> I did some math, my new rig is almost 8 times faster/powerful than my
> old rig but pulls much less than half the power even when fully loaded.
> I might add, I think the old rig was idle when I measured that.

My next box will be a commodity box.  This one is a big tower because
I wanted compute power for pictures I was generating, lots of them,
and I wanted lots of storage room.  Now with 4TB drives so cheap and
USB 3 for speed, the storage can all be done by external drives, and I
don't need the compute power any more.  I do like building computers,
in a way, but I don't like the idea of being rushed into building a
replacement, and I don't need any custom features.

A friend suggested a big lightning storm a month ago might have
temporarily scrambled something.  It tripped breakers in the house and
blew out a battery in the standby generator shed, but I've rebooted
twice since that storm without any problems.  I guess it will remain a
mystery.

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