On December 21, 2018 12:27:28 AM UTC, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >Dale wrote: >> J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> On December 20, 2018 11:45:29 AM UTC, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> >wrote: >>> >>> Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Next upgrade idea: >>> - mainboard with NVME slot >>> - NVME drive for your OS. >>> >>> Your CPU and memory will be the next bottleneck :) >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > >> >> >> Yea. I looked into rebuilding from scratch, less the case of >course. >> I'm just not sure it would be worth the speed increase. The biggest >> things I needed, more drive space and more memory. The CPU was just >> on sale. Hard to beat $75.00 for a 8 core CPU running at over 4GHz. >> Right now, it's plenty fast. I may consider it after I do some other >> things tho. I plan to do a emerge -e world before to long. I wanted >> to let the new CPU compound sort of get set in. >> >> I might add, the new video card is way overpowered for what I do. >> LOL Most of the time, it maxes out at about 10% of its power and >less >> than 10% for memory usage. I really can't tell much difference from >> my old 220 to this new 650 series. The biggest difference, the 650 >> runs much cooler. I just hope it doesn't get bored and go to sleep. >> ;-) Oh, when I run glxgears at full screen, it still only goes to >> about 60%. It warms up a little but not a whole lot. >> >> Now to go see what a NVME drive is. I don't recall ever hearing of >> those. Sounds interesting. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) > > >OMG. Those things are fast. Those things make a sata drive look like >a >snail or something and let's not mention the old IDE drives. Thing is, >I've got a 160GB drive for the OS itself right now. Even a 256GB one >of >those isn't to bad price wise. The OS is really all I'd need on that >thing anyway. The sata drives are plenty fast enough for watching >videos etc. I wonder, how much faster would emerges go on those >things? One wouldn't even need portage's work directory on tmpfs with >that. > >Wow!!! > >Dale > >:-) :-)
Considering that they, like all SSDs have a limited write cycle, I only use mine for the compiled software. I still use a tmpfs for compiling. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
