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Am 23.06.2010 03:43, schrieb Mark Knecht: |
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> I'm writing you from an Intel Core i5-661 Clarksdale machine using the |
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> built in graphics. I've been fairly impressed with the processor |
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> itself, not very impressed with the stock cooling they supplied, and |
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> in general find the graphics at least acceptable for my needs as a |
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> desktop machine. |
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That's one of my questions: I currently use a passive Nvidia GeForce |
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9600 GT here so to be able to play some games now and then (quite good |
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performance compared to my former card but chosen for being quiet and |
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cool while I work). |
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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 definitely |
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not important ... just a nice to have feature maybe. |
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> The i5-661 cores are actually the fastest cores I have, and I've also |
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> got an i7-920 and an i7-980x. The i5-661 is only 2 cores/4 threads, |
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> but the cores are clocked at a higher rate than the other machine and |
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> on simple non-multi-threaded apps outperform the other machines. |
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> However when I'm running something compute intensive I've had the |
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> machine over heat using stock cooling so get a good CPU fan. (Yeah, |
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> the i7-980x is pretty nice also as it has 12 threads to play with and |
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> builds KDE from source in a little over an hour.) |
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So you run "make -j13" or something? |
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> This machine has 3 old hard drives in it as well as 2 sound cards and |
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> a 1394 card and along with the two LCD monitors it still draws only |
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> about 150W so I'm pretty happy with the cost of running it day to day. |
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> I've not used it at all for Myth since I moved mostly to DirecTV but I |
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> suspect it wouldn't do badly assuming there's no issues with the Intel |
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> Graphics driver. I cannot help you there. |
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I only run mythfrontend here sometimes, mostly in a window on one of the |
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two monitors. I got used to compiz, even for daily work, but that |
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shouldn't be much load for the intel graphics. |
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What I would like to speed up is updating various VMs, I have quite some |
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linuxes in VMs, some of them gentoo-based, and running "emerge -avuDN |
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world" on them could always need some speedup ;-) |
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Thanks, Stefan |
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