On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 7:35 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> > Another question. My rig is getting a bit aged. I have a AMD FX-8350 8 > core CPU running at 4GHz. I also have 32GBs of memory. I've read that > Intel currently has the best bang for buck on CPUs nowadays. I'm open > to the idea of switching. As far as speed goes, if I built a new rig > that is using a reasonably cost CPU and memory, would I see any real > improvements?
I think it all depends on what you're going to use the machine for and whether you really use all your CPU for extended periods of time. For all the hours my machines run they are mostly idle, in the sense that even if I'm keeping the machine busy watching a movie, doing backups, browsing the web, even on my older machines none of those use more than 10-15% of my older machines. The only two things I do which drove the purchase of my new machine were: 1) Studio level audio recording using Mixbus32C (the for-pay version of the Open Source project called Ardour) 2) Astrophotography photo processing using the for-pay program called PixInsight. Mixbus32C issues are more based around real-time performance and use of both the Linux and Windows versions, and being able to transfer projects back and forth between both platforms. I've never heard you talk about using Windows, nor doing anything that takes real-time capabilities so that probably doesn't apply. PixInsight is the processor hog. It can use all my 32GB memory (and more) and it can run for hours using 100% of my CPU so it's the one that drove my eventual purchase of a Ryzen 9 5950X. PixInsight has a benchmark program built in and all the results are open to look at: https://pixinsight.com/benchmark/index.php?sort=cpu&os=all Interestingly I didn't find your processor even on the list and the top says it covers about 3000 CPU models. You might take a look at this when you boil your processor choices down to 2 or 3. Note that for the specific processor type you can open up the group and look at individual machines. Most/many include what motherboard they were running so that can assist you making choices also. Hope this helps, Mark
