On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:03:47 -0400, Henry Barton <kw...@outlook.com> wrote:
Sorry, Marcus. My email once again sent just to you. I would suggest a used Core i5 PC. The i7, IMO, is just a 10% better i5 for 150-200% the price. You'd be surprised how much computer you can get if you buy just a couple years out of date. The new ones are only marginally faster for almost double the price. I jumped on a Newegg deal for a used 3rd Gen i5 with a 2x4 GB RAM arrangement, to which I added a 2x2 GB set that brought it up to 12 GB while maintaining dual-channel. The cost, if you get a deal like mine, need not be much more than $450 or so. A brand-new PC that price could not approach this setup, performance-wise. I would also suggest Windows 7 x64 for maximum performance, but you're probably a Linux user. On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 12:49:57 -0400, <mle...@ripnet.com> wrote: Note that the FX series (at least, some of them) use a shared FPU arrangement. Having said that, I have an FX-8350 system that does fairly well with 6 receivers operating at 2.56Msps, doing correlation interferometry (computing 15 visibility functions in parallel for the 6 receivers). On 2016-09-22 11:55, Henry Barton wrote: I would go for more real cores. Back when I was doing CGI, I thought the Pentium 4 with HT would be a good idea, but it wasn't. On that CPU, the logical Intel cores only do integer operations; floating-point can only be done on real cores. It's probably the same on the modern chips, otherwise they'd just say 4 real cores. So even though I normally favor Intel PC's, if these 2 are your only choices then I would suggest the AMD. On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 10:20:50 -0400, Fernando Peral <ferna...@samara.com.es<mailto:ferna...@samara.com.es>> wrote: I'm buying a new computer and two possible options will be intel i3-6100 and AMD FX-4300. Performance using GNU-Radio may be the key to the selection of one or the other. I guess the more cores the CPU, the better the performance. FX-4300 is 4 cores, i3-6100 is only two cores but they say both of them runs 4 threads. I should think that a real core (AMD) will work faster than a "logic" one (intel), but reading benchmarks it seems that i3-6100 beats FX-4300 ..... but what with GNU-Radio? Anyone has test both? regards _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org<mailto:Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio -- Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
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