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On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:07 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Rich Freeman 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 seven |
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>>> years ago when it was brand-new. It still works to my satisfaction. But |
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>>> of course recent CPUs (for example AMD Ryzen) are much faster. Therefore |
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>>> I wanna buy an AMD Threadripper next year. This should be an enormous |
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>>> 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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> My old rig, AMD 2500+ CPU with about 3 or 4GBs of ram. My new rig, AMD |
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> Phenom II X4 955 with 16GBs of ram. My old rig, pulled about 400 watts |
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> from the wall, while idle. My new rig, pulls about 160 watts idle and |
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> that includes monitor, router and all. I don't think my little speakers |
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> are plugged into the UPS. Thing is, my new rig according to my math is |
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> almost 10 times as fast. It has a lot more ram and more drives than the |
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> old rig. |
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> More to your point, my old rig used 80mm fans. It had lots of them. |
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> CPU, several on the case including some I added myself. It made some |
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> noise for sure. My new case is a Cooler Master HAF-932. It has those |
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> 200mm fans which move a lot of air but turn pretty slowly, which means |
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> quiet. Thing is, the newer and faster rig runs cooler, quieter and |
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> faster than the old rig by far. |
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> Isn't it amazing how efficient and fast newer computers are? It's |
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> almost worth the energy saving to upgrade. If a person runs their |
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> system 24/7, that is even more reason. |
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It's something I used to bring up in #gentoo when people would come in |
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and ask or complain about compilation times. The amortization period |
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for computers is generally 3 years. If you use them longer, you are |
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(in theory) losing money relative to your competitors. |
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As a home user, your time and energy budgets might not be so tight, |
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but the lack of stress is worth a nice desktop for compiling your |
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software. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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