On Sun, 14 May 2017 11:44:08 -0700, Brendan || Lyn Perrine wrote:
>Although I know pentium IV( prescott) to core 2 was a huge jump on the
>intel side I also have 4 GB of ram in this laptop. It seems to do
>everything but gaming and running virtual machines well.
Indeed my old machine had 4 GiB RAM, this was even enough to do
real-time audio without swapping, hell, even 2 GiB worked without
issues and nearly no swapping. OTOH my new mobo has got 8 GiB of memory
and I still can't compile Firefox in tmpfs with the default for tmpfs,
half of the memory ;).
Regarding VMs it might depend on the used virtualization. I'm very
lazy, so I like to use VBox. I'm running Win 7 as guest and chose qcow
instead of vdi, to be able to easily migrate to another VM. Actually
it's not a wise decision. For my needs, real-time audio, my new machine
is good enough, but for some special tasks it's still to weak.
# dmidecode -t baseboard|grep Manu -A1
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: B85M-D3H
# hwinfo --cpu|sort -u|grep Mo
Model: 6.60.3 "Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G1840 @ 2.80GHz"
The ten years borked machine I used before, was AMD based with similar
specifications, however, RAM speed, as well as SATA and USB increased
when migrating to the new elChepo machine. Now my SSD could be used
with
# smartctl -a /dev/sda|grep SATA
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
instead of 3.0 Gb/s, this makes a big difference ;).
The reason to replace the around 10 years old machine was, that I was
sick of turning on the soldering bolt, while I wanted to compose
music instead of repairing my computer. Fortunately the new elCheapo
machine came with a lot of benefits.
As you can see, I'm not buying the latest and greatest, I even use
computer components from trash, if it makes sense.
However, getting rid of very old hardware makes live much easier. With
my old machine I needed to unbind devices, to get better real-time
performance. I don't need to do this for my new machine.
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