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From: Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 05:49:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181207104959.GA3369@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0456c03c-8a4b-17b9-b062-e42580ed531f@gmail.com>

On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:30:48AM -0600, Dale wrote:
> 
> One last question for anyone who has done this recently.  When finished,
> I'll have a FX-8350 CPU with 8 cores at 4.0/4.2GHz, 32GBs of memory all
> on a Gigabyte 970 series mobo.  Would there be any point in upgrading to
> a whole new rig or is what I have about as fast is reasonable to build? 
> I don't do gaming or anything.  Even the GTX 650 video card is likely
> overkill for what I do here.  The older 200 series card is working just
> fine.  On one hand, my current build is several years old.  On the
> other, computers seem to have reached their peak.  I'm sure there is
> more powerful systems out there but would I be any better off with one?
> 
> Thanks to all for the help on this. 
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 
> 

IMO that's totally fine. I just built a new rig to use for programming
and some "light" gaming and it's not even that good. My specs are AMD
Ryzen 5 1600 (6 core, 3.2 GHz) and 16GB RAM.

This replaced a rig that was 7 years old that had a better CPU (Intel
3930K) and more RAM (32GB) :D.

Alec


  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-07 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-06  9:27 [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade and LVM questions Dale
2018-12-06 10:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-12-06 15:17   ` Dale
2018-12-06 16:51   ` J. Roeleveld
2018-12-06 18:36 ` Corbin Bird
2018-12-06 20:58   ` Dale
2018-12-06 21:24     ` Jack
2018-12-06 21:55       ` Dale
2018-12-07  1:06     ` Corbin Bird
2018-12-07  1:17       ` Dale
2018-12-07  5:10         ` Dale
2018-12-07  6:22           ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2018-12-07  7:30             ` Dale
2018-12-07 10:49               ` Alec Ten Harmsel [this message]
2018-12-07 23:47               ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-12-07 23:59                 ` Dale
2018-12-09 18:23                 ` Taiidan
2018-12-09 18:57                   ` J. Roeleveld
2018-12-09 22:41                     ` Dale
2018-12-10 21:33                     ` Taiidan
2018-12-10 22:14                       ` Neil Bothwick
2018-12-10 22:54                         ` Dale
2018-12-11  2:00                           ` Taiidan
2018-12-11  8:49                             ` Neil Bothwick
2018-12-11  9:23                               ` Mick
2018-12-11 10:48                               ` Dale
2018-12-11 15:14                                 ` J. Roeleveld
2018-12-11 22:46                               ` Adam Carter
2018-12-11 23:56                                 ` Dale
2018-12-12  2:15                                   ` Adam Carter
2018-12-11 10:20                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-12-11 15:03                             ` J. Roeleveld
2018-12-07  8:47         ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2018-12-07  8:58           ` Dale
2018-12-06 21:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2018-12-06 21:45   ` Dale
2018-12-06 22:22     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-12-06 23:23       ` Dale
2018-12-06 23:40         ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-12-07  0:19           ` Dale
2018-12-07 10:01             ` Peter Humphrey
2018-12-07 12:41               ` Dale
2018-12-07 16:51                 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-12-08  1:01                   ` Dale
2018-12-08  2:51                     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-12-08  4:39                       ` Dale
2018-12-08  5:33                       ` David Haller
2018-12-08  5:45                         ` Dale
2018-12-08  6:00                         ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-12-08  6:28                           ` David Haller
2018-12-08  4:23                 ` David Haller
2018-12-08  5:35                   ` Dale
2018-12-08  6:06                     ` David Haller
2018-12-08  5:38                   ` David Haller
2018-12-08  9:40                     ` Peter Humphrey
2018-12-08  9:50                       ` Peter Humphrey
2018-12-06 21:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Taylor
2018-12-09 22:45   ` Dale
2018-12-10  1:35     ` Grant Taylor
2018-12-10  2:38       ` Dale
2018-12-10  3:37         ` Grant Taylor
2018-12-10  9:27         ` Neil Bothwick
2018-12-10 16:00           ` Dale
2018-12-08 17:49 ` Alexander Puchmayr
2018-12-08 18:23   ` Dale
2018-12-08 19:09     ` J. Roeleveld
2018-12-08 20:48       ` Dale
2018-12-11 10:41 ` Dale
2018-12-22 23:58 ` Dale

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