From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C790C1384B4 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2015 20:43:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC30B21C0E6; Wed, 9 Dec 2015 20:43:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wm0-f45.google.com (mail-wm0-f45.google.com [74.125.82.45]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5EA4721C0E1 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2015 20:43:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wm0-f45.google.com with SMTP id c201so3150719wme.0 for ; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 12:43:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=J5fIoqL3qDMBxoz2daYtJ/LGYLpCg7NcNVq9BNI7h1s=; b=0wW4pTp30Tkg0FyPKY2elu3+XwIfB7PgQg4k1gUm2eEC6FLG+TY6sysMDAzU7k8oJZ 6DYNE/d5wJRMHCIWG4zoPVAT7RL9myHMo8aT751o9fPYtvY3K3hl82JDnZ5b7JYxPYAR L+EJY+zorhDcPcRq3fO0wd2HwtHbxLBgPKaSVPwZgb6JHKHD0Ja9BMe0ZprzCXMto7lF Zw3CQXDl63IZKu+dfQGtj2BDzgffwM2SyTGX5VhsGu8PWwAd05RRpLnY3x6jsYlNEqMs N5r1ZRRroD9/zS57dxWgJdAf6z81Hoad+QVnhlP08rDVFormpHRRt3SjLq0DQcDQ1by1 n4pg== X-Received: by 10.28.228.138 with SMTP id b132mr39164020wmh.46.1449693814290; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 12:43:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.0.40] ([165.255.82.159]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id 200sm9792410wmn.11.2015.12.09.12.43.32 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 09 Dec 2015 12:43:32 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: i7-6700, anyone already? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <565F6CF4.9010403@xunil.at> <56689182.2030001@xunil.at> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: <5668922B.1030401@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 22:42:19 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 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 In-Reply-To: <56689182.2030001@xunil.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 586db99c-ad5a-4c7e-9520-6be3bdfaf8e7 X-Archives-Hash: b76fffd1d7da0268f1a4f424c0e2c22f On 09/12/2015 22:39, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2015-12-02 um 23:13 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> >> I consider buying a new machine for my office in december. >> >> The intel core-i7-6xxx look interesting to me, although the plain CPU >> performance isn't that much better than my plain old i7-2600 when I look >> at cpunbenchmark.net >> >> I assume the overall package makes more difference: DDR4-RAM, etc etc > > Ordered today. Looking forward .. > It will be triple-boot: gentoo, fedora, win10 (as I paid for it) > > ordered with standard 8 gigs of RAM for a start, more later. > right now my box uses 1425 megs with full gnome-3.18 running ... so what > ... > > I assume an optimized kernel will perform quite well on that CPU. > Although I am no expecting too much. 5yrs of improvement ? ;) Did you get an SSD as well? It's one of the biggest performance improvements you can make[1] and to be honest is worth more overall than expensive CPUs. [1] The other huge improvement is another 8G of RAM and make /var/tmp/portage a tmpfs with default settings (it will use up to 8G RAM on demand). Everything you build will fit, including firefox and libreoffice -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com