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On 09/12/2015 22:39, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> Am 2015-12-02 um 23:13 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: |
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>> I consider buying a new machine for my office in december. |
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>> The intel core-i7-6xxx look interesting to me, although the plain CPU |
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>> performance isn't that much better than my plain old i7-2600 when I look |
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>> at cpunbenchmark.net |
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>> I assume the overall package makes more difference: DDR4-RAM, etc etc |
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> Ordered today. Looking forward .. |
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> It will be triple-boot: gentoo, fedora, win10 (as I paid for it) |
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> ordered with standard 8 gigs of RAM for a start, more later. |
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> right now my box uses 1425 megs with full gnome-3.18 running ... so what |
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> ... |
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> I assume an optimized kernel will perform quite well on that CPU. |
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> Although I am no expecting too much. 5yrs of improvement ? ;) |
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Did you get an SSD as well? |
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It's one of the biggest performance improvements you can make[1] and to |
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be honest is worth more overall than expensive CPUs. |
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[1] The other huge improvement is another 8G of RAM and make |
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/var/tmp/portage a tmpfs with default settings (it will use up to 8G RAM |
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on demand). Everything you build will fit, including firefox and libreoffice |
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Alan McKinnon |
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