From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qe7us-0004wo-Dy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:52:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9744A21C127; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:50:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A9FF21C127 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:50:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyf40 with SMTP id 40so7151898iyf.40 for ; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:50:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=+jRnVdxjVzRnllVYBK0Vx73c3U5GwBvfXHtTM4wE7us=; b=LKIS7xKqi+UcYXQY434aAtU6ejClbxKj/4xwNhmo+IaWNXDBcupErpOo7jyj6rob5D obn+DLPUXP2zQKg48Zxg1+mS2aB5+gJ7CYb9eYaaPc/tQ+RLmezgm0gzXZJxe5LgDvxv kDYyvkjIXWR7t+VEmuHs9VW7lonOqiApLISBM= Received: by 10.231.44.209 with SMTP id b17mr4414730ibf.43.1309881016939; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.25.20] (173-8-195-225-Oregon.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.195.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q13sm1780218ibi.26.2011.07.05.08.50.14 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E13327E.7020706@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:49:18 -0700 From: Bill Longman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110616 Lightning/1.0b3pre Lanikai/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s) References: <4E100985.5090604@coolmail.se> <4E1212AF.9090908@coolmail.se> <4E12959C.5080709@coolmail.se> In-Reply-To: <4E12959C.5080709@coolmail.se> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1bcef5f48f66fb7a650d6a289893e8e8 On 07/04/2011 09:39 PM, pk wrote: > On 2011-07-04 22:32, Grant wrote: > >> That's the FM1 socket, right? I only see two FM1 CPUs on newegg.com > > Yep. > >> right now. They're quad-core and 100W. I guess the advantage there >> is they have graphics on the CPU. A 65W CPU would be better but when >> it comes out I suppose. > > Yes, since a htpc doesn't need a powerful cpu (or a powerful gpu) I > would wait for the low power version. Acc. to Wikipedia the A6-3600/3800 > should be released (30th of June) so it shouldn't take long for Newegg > to get them? I guess you could always ask them... > > My thinking is this: A htpc doesn't need a powerful cpu/gpu combo but if > you're running Gentoo on it, and planning to do the compiling on the > machine itself, it's still nice to have a few cores available. If you > are patient or can do cross-compiling (I haven't actually tried these > myself) on another machine there are even lower power alternatives > (Intel Atom, AMD Fusion): I've run two different Atom boxes as desktops - a 300 and now a D525. With an SSD my total power usage, with 4GB of DDR3-800 RAM, is typically less than 30W. And it's quite responsive. The 300 was a dog but the 525 is great.