Re: [gentoo-user] PCIe x1 or PCIe x4 SATA controller card

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Sunday, 26 March 2023 20:08:29 BST Dale wrote:

> I looked at a few lists of CPU processors.  This is a bit pricey but I may
> try to buy a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core @ 3.7 GHz.  It has 4 more cores but
> clock speed is a little slower.  Even just comparing number of cores and the
> fairly close clock speed, that alone should make it a bit faster.  Add in
> that they make them run code more efficiently now, should be a good bit
> better.

That's the CPU I have. It's double-threaded, and it just flies.  :)

> I usually try to aim for 4 or 5 times more processing power.  I suspect
> this may help with encryption as well since newer CPUs have extra code
> just for that on there now.  Most of the mobos also handle a lot more
> memory as well.  I have 32GBs now.  Most support 64GB and I think I saw
> a 128GB version somewhere. 

My machine was built by Armari, and it has 64GB. Even that isn't enough to 
accommodate more than one huge package emerge at a time - which is why I'd 
like to see the new feature I've been bleating about. I might ask them if I 
can double it.

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Regards,
Peter.