* Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?
@ 2005-10-02 12:59 99% ` Dave S
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From: Dave S @ 2005-10-02 12:59 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote:
>Perhaps you can get a Semprom with a smaller clock but a higher FSB. I
>have an AMD Semprom 2400+ with 400 Mhz FSB, 1 GB of Ram and I'm very
>happy with it. It plays all the games I want and I can work in it very
>smoothly. I recently upgrade to 1 GB of Ram, used to be 512 Mb and the
>difference is amazing compared to 256, specially compile speeds. So,
>unless you might want to upgrade you Celeron to a P4, assuming the
>motherboard will take both, I'd go with Semprom, I believe it's more
>cost-effective.
>
>2005/10/2, Folken <folken@chaostreff.ch>:
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>>On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:12:56AM +0100, Dave S wrote:
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>>>The GHz sound impressive but I know neither chip is a very powerful, I
>>>believe they 'water down' the internals !. I cant find anywhere a
>>>comparison between my PIII & these two possibilitys.
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>>I found a comparision between (almost) your target cpus:
>>http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=61
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>>(note the celeron is actually the 2.8 GHz Model)
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>>>My PIII is old technology, these two are newer technology with faster
>>>clock speeds but engineered to a price, would the speed increase be
>>>noticeable ? Any comments ?
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>>The 512 MB Ram will defently noticeable when you work with KDE. KDE is
>>very ram hungry and I wouldn't recommend to run it with less than 512.
>>(Although speed / memory consumption seem to have improved miles with
>>the latest versions of kde)
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>>>Intel Celeron 2.4GHz 128K 400MHz Socket 478 CPU OEM - 512MB RAM
>>>AMD Sempron 2800+ 2.0GHz (333FSB) 256K Cache Socket A OEM - 512 MB RAM
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>>As to the processors, I'd go for the Sempron. Celerons are IMO castraded
>>pentiums and really not great for compiler runs. The halved L1 cache
>>really hits on the performance in general. Since you are on a contrained
>>budget I'd even more strongley urge you to amd, since they usually give
>>you more performance for the buck.
>>
>>(That being said.. i'm no fan of intel. Therefore take this with a grain
>>of salt.)
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>>Oh btw.. you may ignore GHz numbers now.. they are no longer an
>>indicator of how "fast" processors are.
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>>- Folken
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Thanks for all your input guys, its been very helpfull. A Sempron seems
the way to go ...
Dave
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