From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: i7-6700, anyone already?
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 23:49:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5668A1DB.9060007@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56689C1E.4000808@xunil.at>
On 09/12/2015 23:24, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 2015-12-09 um 21:42 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
>
>> Did you get an SSD as well?
>
> sure. I even look for the PCIe variant (just contacted my dealer for
> this option ... forgot in the first place).
>
> I am on SSDs for years now on desktop and laptops.
>
>> 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
>
> I have that right now, yes.
>
> The RAM was out of stock there so I ordered the 8g-default and will add
> more later.
Sounds like you're all set to use that i7 to it's fullest :-)
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-09 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-02 22:13 [gentoo-user] OT: i7-6700, anyone already? Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-12-09 20:39 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-12-09 20:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-12-09 21:24 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-12-09 21:49 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2015-12-09 22:03 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-12-10 4:50 ` waltdnes
2015-12-10 6:46 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-12-10 8:51 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2015-12-10 18:52 ` waltdnes
2015-12-11 9:33 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-12-13 10:39 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-12-13 11:50 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-12-13 12:05 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-12-15 14:02 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-12-30 19:00 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-12-30 22:16 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2016-01-04 22:00 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-12-09 22:44 ` Mick
2015-12-10 6:48 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
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