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Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 5:22 PM, wabe <wabenbau@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I'm using an AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor. I bought it six or |
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> > seven years ago when it was brand-new. It still works to my |
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> > satisfaction. But of course recent CPUs (for example AMD Ryzen) are |
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> > much faster. Therefore I wanna buy an AMD Threadripper next year. |
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> > This should be an enormous speedup. :-) |
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> Having just upgraded one of those to a Ryzen 5 1600 I can tell you |
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> that besides tripling your kernel build speeds, it will also sound |
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> less like a hair dryer and make your room feel less like it has a |
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> space heater inside. |
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I have a huge cooler and a big 140mm fan on top of the CPUs. That plus |
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noise absorbing cases with some huge slow rotating fans makes my PCs |
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nearly silent. However when running under full load its a little bit |
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annoying. As workaround I then rise the volume of my stereo a bit. ;-) |
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I'm not sure what TDP my Phenoms have (95W or 125W). The TDP of the |
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1950X is rated at 180W. But this is for all cores running at full load. |
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So the effective heat output over time should be lower than with my old |
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CPUs. |
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> That said, I'd check any chip you buy for the week number to ensure |
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> that it doesn't have the segfault issue if you're going to use it with |
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> Gentoo. |
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I read about the problem regarding Ryzen and Linux. That's one reason |
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why I didn't bought it yet. Then I read about the new AMD 1950X and |
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decided to wait some months until the price of this CPU has dropped a |
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bit and its potentially existing childhood diseases are cured. |
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Because of the high price for the whole machine (board, ram, cpu...) |
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I will replace my two PCs (one Windoze and one Gentoo) with a single |
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machine. However I have some concerns regarding dualboot. I would |
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prefer NVMe SSDs but I think it may be better to use eSATA disks. Then |
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I easily can switch the disks and it should be impossible that one OS |
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can compromise the other. |
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Or is there another way to proper isolate the systems? |
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> I am using mine with ECC RAM and can report that seems to work fine, |
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> though you should check for MB recommendations for that. |
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I also plan to use ECC RAM. For image processing I need a lot of RAM. |
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And the more RAM, the more risk for memory corruption. |
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Before I buy new stuff I have to read a lot of information. Since I |
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bought my hardware many years ago I lose touch with the actual |
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hardware development. |
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Hopefully the price for RAM will drop before I buy the new rig. It's |
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incredible high at the moment. |
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Regards |
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wabe |
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