From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EtanC-0000aR-0A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:16:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k031EhJx001316; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 01:14:43 GMT Received: from mirus.exceedtech.net (ftp.crawdat.com [65.116.46.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k031CcrI016591 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 01:12:39 GMT Received: from [205.208.159.100] (JacksonDialPool1.100.ikano.com [205.208.159.100]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k031GKwT012615 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 19:16:56 -0600 Message-ID: <43B9CEA1.1030303@exceedtech.net> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:08:49 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051230 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Dual-Opteron References: <1135815639.43b32bd72d574@webmail.ntplx.net> <43B82F0F.8060600@hermes.cam.ac.uk> <200601012018.40667.bss03@volumehost.com> In-Reply-To: <200601012018.40667.bss03@volumehost.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5839dc20-b2e7-4b86-bf0c-b04ddaa59b80 X-Archives-Hash: 6beb1e8fa2bea4707ca3aaec042341a2 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > >As the owner of a dual-Opteron 275 system, I can say they they are very >nice. An emerge -e world (700+ packages) only takes 24 hours, during >which the system is totally usable (full-screen video + 5.1 audio does not >stutter). > > > No offense but my main rig does about that. It's just a AMD 2500+ with 1GB of ram, running at 2GHz though. I was thinking about building me a new rig but if I won't see any more improvement than that, I'll spend my money somewhere else, maybe some glasses for a start. O_O Dale Still sleepy, going back to bed. -_- <---- < closed eyes > LOL -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list