On Apr 13, 2013 12:18 PM, "Nilesh Govindrajan" <m...@nileshgr.com> wrote: > > On Saturday 13 April 2013 10:39:08 AM IST, Kvothe Tech wrote: >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> Tamer Higazi <th9...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi people! >>> My old core2duo machine says slowly goodbye and I am at this lever >>> after >>> 7 years for buying myself a new developer machine, that should serve me >>> well for a long time again. With intel I never had problems, all their >>> systems were REALLY stable, and they were really worth their money up >>> to >>> the last cent. >>> >>> I am asking all the gentoo people for an advise, for it's opinion which >>> cpu to buy, that would perfectly work with Gentoo, as well where all of >>> it's future would be used- >>> There are 3 choices: >>> >>> Intel Xeon E5-2650 >>> Core i7 3979 extreme edition >>> AMD FX.8350 CPU >>> >>> >>> for an advise, I would kindly thank you. >>> >>> >>> >>> Tamer >> >> >> Xeon if its a server i7 if not but that's just me also depends what else you have in it or want and what other than developing you're doing >> - -- >> Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> > > IMO FX8350 would be better, especially if you're running long compile jobs (include portage as a part of it). > FX8350 outperforms i5 in various cases for the price point. >
I myself prefer AMD CPUs to Intel ones. Intel has this habit of 'segmenting' their processor features. E.g., Intel VT-x (Intel's buggy implementation of AMD-V) is not available across the board. If one needs to leverage VT-x for virtualization purposes, one must be double sure that the CPU one bought supports VT-x. All latest AMD CPUs (except the laptop versions) support all AMD features. So, as long as one does not buy a laptop CPU, one can be sure that one gets everything one wants from a modern CPU. Rgds, --
