Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 5:22 PM, wabe <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm using an AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor. I bought it six or seven >> years ago when it was brand-new. It still works to my satisfaction. But >> of course recent CPUs (for example AMD Ryzen) are much faster. Therefore >> I wanna buy an AMD Threadripper next year. This should be an enormous >> speedup. :-) >> > Having just upgraded one of those to a Ryzen 5 1600 I can tell you > that besides tripling your kernel build speeds, it will also sound > less like a hair dryer and make your room feel less like it has a > space heater inside. >
My old rig, AMD 2500+ CPU with about 3 or 4GBs of ram. My new rig, AMD Phenom II X4 955 with 16GBs of ram. My old rig, pulled about 400 watts from the wall, while idle. My new rig, pulls about 160 watts idle and that includes monitor, router and all. I don't think my little speakers are plugged into the UPS. Thing is, my new rig according to my math is almost 10 times as fast. It has a lot more ram and more drives than the old rig. More to your point, my old rig used 80mm fans. It had lots of them. CPU, several on the case including some I added myself. It made some noise for sure. My new case is a Cooler Master HAF-932. It has those 200mm fans which move a lot of air but turn pretty slowly, which means quiet. Thing is, the newer and faster rig runs cooler, quieter and faster than the old rig by far. Isn't it amazing how efficient and fast newer computers are? It's almost worth the energy saving to upgrade. If a person runs their system 24/7, that is even more reason. Dale :-) :-)
