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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] core i5
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:07:37
Message-Id: 4C227518.4040600@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] core i5 by kashani
1 Am 23.06.2010 04:27, schrieb kashani:
2
3 > I updated from a Q6600 to an i7 860 recently. Not amazing speed
4 > wise, but I can run 8 threads and use more than 8GB of RAM. The RAM was
5 > the big thing for me. If you're planning to do a lot with VMs I'd
6 > suggest at least an extra drive if not more if you can swing it.
7
8 You mean for storing the VMs?
9 I have two drives locally now, RAID1 mostly. And I also test storing VMs
10 on an nfsV4-storage via gigabit ethernet. Quite OK. And NFS-storage is
11 more quiet ;-)
12
13 > Overall
14 > I'd say you're not going to notice much speed unless you're very CPU bound.
15
16 OK, thanks for that info!
17
18 Stefan

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