Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 schrieb Mark Allums: > On 10/28/2012 4:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 27 oct 12, 22:27:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Coming from a 2800+ which is a ~60 watt CPU, and given the fact > >> you'll never make use of more than 2 of those 8 cores, I recommend > >> a dual core AthlonII X2 @ 3.4GHz. I have the 3GHz model and the > >> 2nd core is pretty much always idle, with primary core being idle > >> most of the time as well, as is everyone's. > >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103953 > > > > Any opinion on a Core i3 (Ivy Bridge)? > > > > Kind regards, > > Andrei > > P.S. your hardware prices make me drool. Here we have higher numbers > > and in EUR for the same stuff :( > > My own opinion on i3 is that it;s a bit underpowered for a modern > system, even a Linux system. If i7 seems like overkill to you, then > the obvious compromise is i5, which is what i recommend to most > non-technical people. But yeah. Go Ivy bridge no matter which model > you go with.
I have a Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz in that ThinkPad T520 and its really just fast enough for me. Easily. And thats just dual core and the mobile variant. But yes, I´d go for Ivybridge now as well. In my case I will wait for Haswell cause that Sandybridge is fast enough. Even for most gaming I do. (Well with Planeshift Ivybridge would be good:) I think at least with computing power to power comsumption ratio I think Intel Sandybridge and Ivybridge are *really* good. I am not uptodate regarding AMD offerings, but I wouldn´t go for less than this regarding this ratio especially for a desktop machine. > Video: It's hard to recommend anything other than Intel for Linux. > Get the Ivy Bridge i5 CPU with the onboard GPU . Ack. > Memory: Get more than you think you'll need. It's usually worth it. > Don't bother about high speed memory; get the standard stuff that your > MB+CPU supports. If 8 GB then at least with the option to upgrade to 16 or 32 GB. I do have 8 GB in this ThinkPad and while that is more than enough for usual case of me running on or two KDE sessions I have seen this box swapping to SSD in some cases. Like me having two VMs running concurrently to these two KDE sessions. > HDD: Buy two large capacity (2TB or larger) and RAID 1 them for /home > and swap. For /, RAID 1 is optional, capacity 500GB - 1TB. I don't > bother with SSDs on Linux machines for personal use. Windows machines > benefit more from them. Whether you really need them depends on > application. SSD might still be good bet. They are like switching from floppy disk to harddisk for me. But then I have a 12 GB workstation with Ext4 RAID 1 on two Western Digital 1,5 TB drives and /home on NetApp provided 1GBit-NFS and yes its fast too. I attribute that to the 12 GB of RAM in the machine. It just caches everything :). Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201210281254.06212.mar...@lichtvoll.de
