Am 2011-11-16 01:20, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:51:44 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> I play with the thought of getting myself a nice new machine for >> work, better to spend some money on hardware than on taxes (2012 is >> near ...). > > My thoughts exactly.
Same world ;-) >> Performance is one issue, another one is energy/noise ... the >> phenom 1090t seems to pull in a lot and need good (and maybe noisy) >> fans. > > I'll be using my existing water cooling setup, so no need to worry > about that. However, after some research, I've decided to stick with > Intel and orders an i7 2600k today. I wasn't sure whether it was > worth the extra over the i5, but knew I would only regret it the > first time I had to wait for something. I rationalised the cost by > getting "only" 8GB of RAM, but leaving the slots free for another 8GB > should I feel the need for it. I am more Intel-biased also, as I always chose Intel for my own boxes. I quickly clicked a new box together in some online configurator, the difference between 8G and 12G wasn't too much, I could get that in by downgrading a bit on the graphics card (which even in the lower version would be much more powerful than the one I have right now). I use 8G now and it rarely gets really to full use. It just doesn't feel too clever to not take one step up when buying new stuff ;-) Very often one looks back a year after and regrets "I should have chosen the bigger CPU, more RAM, whatever" .... I will decide the RAM-issue when I order. > >> I just start to compare. 6 cores, yep, sounds good for both >> gentoo-compile-work and VMs ... > > The Intel chips are only four cores, but appear to give a lot more > bang-per-core, especially with the i7's hyperthreading. yep. That would mean 8 threads w/ i7 (4 "real" and 4 "hyper") vs. 6 "real" threads w/ amd? I also tend to i7 2600k, some reviews look very good. I will see what your reports tell us :-) Stefan
