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Am 24.06.2010 00:13, schrieb Mark Knecht: |
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>> I don't know if the builtin graphics will allow gaming on the same |
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>> level, I should go for some benchmark results. But this is |
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>> definitely not important ... just a nice to have feature maybe. |
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> Depending on the MB you choose - I'm using an Intel DH55HC - you |
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> might not even get access to the built-in graphics chip. It requires |
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> certain chipsets and then certain connection on the MB and not all |
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> Core i5 MB's that accept the i5-661 have it. I'm sure you know that |
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> already but maybe the info is helpful for others later. |
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I knew part of it ;-) |
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I preferred Intel boards for years now and wasn't disappointed. |
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Maybe this time I chose a Lenovo machine with 3 yrs support ...? |
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M90p they call it, I don't know .... |
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> The DH55HC has been a pretty good MB over the last 4-5 months that |
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> I've been running the machine and the graphics are OK. They were not |
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> so good 5 months ago but the driver has gotten noticeably better. |
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Windows driver, I assume? |
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>> So you run "make -j13" or something? |
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> Exactly. -j13. However there are things to learn about machine |
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> configuration at this level. The disk systems start operating |
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> differently when you have a lot of memory. I'm running 24GB of DRAM |
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> on that machine and this effects the way the kernel looks at write |
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> back to disk and what not. No problems, just new things to learn. |
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interesting. |
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How do you use up 24 gigs of DRAM? |
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Just tell me, I would like to justify that for me as well ;-) |
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> I've wanted to check out compiz but haven't had the time to learn. |
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> One down side to running Gentoo is that you cannot do much of |
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> anything like that without considerable study before hand... |
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Sure ... compiz is part eyecandy, part useful little features. I got |
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used to the features (=would somehow miss them) and the eyecandy (= "ah, |
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yes, it rotates ... hmm, sure ..."). |
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:-) |
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> For the price it's been a good purchase I think. I've run Windows XP |
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> and Win 7 in vmware and the speed is pretty close to identical on |
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> the apps I use. (Mostly TradeStation) I won't do live stock trading |
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> in Win 7 under Gentoo yet but maybe one of these days. It's been very |
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> stable but for safety most of the time when I'm trading I just run |
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> Win 7 native. |
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dualboot then. Haven't booted Windows for months here. Should maybe do |
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and do some gaming instead of hacking around ... |
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;-) |
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Thanks, greets, Stefan |
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