On Sunday, 26 March 2023 20:08:29 BST Dale wrote: > I looked at a few lists of CPU processors. This is a bit pricey but I may > try to buy a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core @ 3.7 GHz. It has 4 more cores but > clock speed is a little slower. Even just comparing number of cores and the > fairly close clock speed, that alone should make it a bit faster. Add in > that they make them run code more efficiently now, should be a good bit > better.
That's the CPU I have. It's double-threaded, and it just flies. :) > I usually try to aim for 4 or 5 times more processing power. I suspect > this may help with encryption as well since newer CPUs have extra code > just for that on there now. Most of the mobos also handle a lot more > memory as well. I have 32GBs now. Most support 64GB and I think I saw > a 128GB version somewhere. My machine was built by Armari, and it has 64GB. Even that isn't enough to accommodate more than one huge package emerge at a time - which is why I'd like to see the new feature I've been bleating about. I might ask them if I can double it. -- Regards, Peter.
