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General thoughts when building a home gentoo workstation that you want |
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to last a _long_ time: |
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- Quality, durability, and flexibility of the motherboard, power |
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supply, and chassis are the most important items to focus on. You |
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want a motherboard that is capable of lasting for 10yrs w/o problem, |
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so high quality electronics. I've gone with Asus Workstation, Tyan, |
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and Gigabyte motherboards in the past. You also want to pay careful |
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attention to heating/cooling and power efficiency. |
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- Once you have the motherboard/chassis worked out, then decide on the |
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cpu. Generally, get the best that you can afford and think about what |
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your needs are....are you doing lots of graphics, floating point work, |
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or just want a box that compiles fast, or is power efficiency your |
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thing? Note that getting the intel extreme cpus is much more |
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expensive, but these are likely to be around longer if you ever need |
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to replace a failed cpu w/o making any changes to the |
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motherboard...and at least awhile back, the intel extreme cpus allowed |
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some overclocking/power management functionality that wasn't yet |
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released on the mainstream cpus. I had a core duo fail a year |
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ago...(yes, core not core2) -- intel was no longer manufacturing any |
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of the cpus compatible with the motherboard, but the original extreme |
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rated cpus were still available for purchase on Amazon at a trivial |
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price point. |
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi João! |
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> Seems to be that the bulldozer and FX architecture is from GCC 4.6.3 up |
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> fully supported. |
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> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags/AMD#FX-8xxx.2F6xxx.2F4xxx_.28Bulldozer.29 |
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> Tamer |
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> Am 15.04.2013 16:47, schrieb João Matos: |
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>> Great discussion. |
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>> |
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>> I'm in a similar situation. I'm using a core2duo for about 5 years, and |
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>> I think it is time to upgrade it. |
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>> But, after reading this, there are still to doubts: |
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>> 1) r the amd processors really fully supported? When I compile my kernel |
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>> (amd64), for instance, while looking for "Processor Type" there are 3 |
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>> options for Intel and just one for AMD. Wouldn't it be kinda generic? |
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>> 2) durability: I'm kinda traumatized with AMD. Maybe I didn't have luck, |
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>> or Brazil is just too hot, but before I change to Intel, I had to buy a |
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>> computer a year: mobo problem, socket changed, then replace everything. |
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>> I'm very exited with the AMD advantages discussed here, but If it is to |
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>> last a year, I'm out. |
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>> Back then, when I used amd, I liked the performace and the price very |
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>> much. I found out about and came to |
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>> Gentoo just when I was looking for a optimized distro to my brand new |
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>> athlon64 processor - that lasted a year. |
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>> Thank you, |
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>> -- |
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>> João de Matos |
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>> Linux User #461527 |
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>> Graduado em Engenharia de Computação |
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>> UEFS - Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana |
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