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 1ORFM5-00065w-6U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:06:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54D38E0B76 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:06:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f181.google.com (mail-px0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C68E0A82 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:43:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi10 with SMTP id 10so696622pxi.40 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:43:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=xzKyyQDYWnV+3jQ43qXC0DfqcNomLU7zJleGxw9+FcQ=; b=oVvl+MfBP4q7FtEa5SZTXaj5RmXyAr0R2aDbY6o+9ZOjo0acw0zfPK//GzBXvQFlUk fea9bOSvCgi5V3m8i9h56rPzjsG13QyOROoFW/lTIs7QF3Tzqc54A8ee6uyQ0ugYePQU xrKe3OnTzZBUjW/5jKODlw2KgvTb11FfkvSTI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=UwpSSc3hcsJg2ZB+sYMZ3Ifg7MgNt0uWmVQT1gwL15GPTr0SqfhTmgubUxLvcmZgFo dykXHhYXRBEuLZquNU8eUQDt9So6I0HsuU5qENt9WGb1nFJo3qQiuJTZOcD6+/pKbuCi X8po5+IRXV7WjSGlto72HjJjGRqJ7dtBABK0A= 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 Received: by 10.142.117.15 with SMTP id p15mr6175489wfc.199.1277257425402; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:43:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.98.3 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:43:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C21317C.2010100@xunil.at> References: <4C21317C.2010100@xunil.at> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:43:45 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] core i5 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: fd95bae1-23d2-40a3-aab7-e83e7c9bbb3d X-Archives-Hash: c5fd8d76d977fdf574b0ec20a9fd40b9 On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > again ... I consider buying a new box for work. > > currently I am still quite happy with my core2duo E6600 with 8 gigs of > ram, running ~amd64 ... running fine. > > but I remember the huge step back then from the pentium 4 ... > > Will it be the same when I go for a core i5? > > I use that box for virtualization as well (vmware and kvm), so maybe it > would also help to not only change cpu but also add 2 cores (going > quadcore). > > I just want to hit the sweet spot if that's possible. > > And I'd like to hear any pros and cons if you would like to share. > > Thanks, Stefan > I'm writing you from an Intel Core i5-661 Clarksdale machine using the built in graphics. I've been fairly impressed with the processor itself, not very impressed with the stock cooling they supplied, and in general find the graphics at least acceptable for my needs as a desktop machine. The i5-661 cores are actually the fastest cores I have, and I've also got an i7-920 and an i7-980x. The i5-661 is only 2 cores/4 threads, but the cores are clocked at a higher rate than the other machine and on simple non-multi-threaded apps outperform the other machines. However when I'm running something compute intensive I've had the machine over heat using stock cooling so get a good CPU fan. (Yeah, the i7-980x is pretty nice also as it has 12 threads to play with and builds KDE from source in a little over an hour.) This machine has 3 old hard drives in it as well as 2 sound cards and a 1394 card and along with the two LCD monitors it still draws only about 150W so I'm pretty happy with the cost of running it day to day. I've not used it at all for Myth since I moved mostly to DirecTV but I suspect it wouldn't do badly assuming there's no issues with the Intel Graphics driver. I cannot help you there. Cheers, Mark