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On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:51:44 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> I play with the thought of getting myself a nice new machine for work, |
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> better to spend some money on hardware than on taxes (2012 is near ...). |
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My thoughts exactly. |
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> Performance is one issue, another one is energy/noise ... the phenom |
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> 1090t seems to pull in a lot and need good (and maybe noisy) fans. |
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I'll be using my existing water cooling setup, so no need to worry about |
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that. However, after some research, I've decided to stick with Intel and |
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orders an i7 2600k today. I wasn't sure whether it was worth the extra |
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over the i5, but knew I would only regret it the first time I had to wait |
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for something. I rationalised the cost by getting "only" 8GB of RAM, but |
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leaving the slots free for another 8GB should I feel the need for it. |
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> I just start to compare. 6 cores, yep, sounds good for both |
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> gentoo-compile-work and VMs ... |
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The Intel chips are only four cores, but appear to give a lot more |
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bang-per-core, especially with the i7's hyperthreading. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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If you consult enough experts, you can confirm any opinion. |
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