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

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 7:35 AM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Another question.  My rig is getting a bit aged.  I have a AMD FX-8350 8
> core CPU running at 4GHz.  I also have 32GBs of memory.  I've read that
> Intel currently has the best bang for buck on CPUs nowadays.  I'm open
> to the idea of switching.  As far as speed goes, if I built a new rig
> that is using a reasonably cost CPU and memory, would I see any real
> improvements?

I think it all depends on what you're going to use the machine for and
whether you really use all your CPU for extended periods of time.

For all the hours my machines run they are mostly idle, in the sense
that even if I'm keeping the machine busy watching a movie, doing
backups, browsing the web, even on my older machines none of those
use more than 10-15% of my older machines. The only two things I do
which drove the purchase of my new machine were:

1) Studio level audio recording using Mixbus32C (the for-pay version
of the Open Source project called Ardour)

2) Astrophotography photo processing using the for-pay program
called PixInsight.

Mixbus32C issues are more based around real-time performance
and use of both the Linux and Windows versions, and being able
to transfer projects back and forth between both platforms. I've
never heard you talk about using Windows, nor doing anything
that takes real-time capabilities so that probably doesn't apply.

PixInsight is the processor hog. It can use all my 32GB memory
(and more) and it can run for hours using 100% of my CPU so
it's the one that drove my eventual purchase of a Ryzen 9 5950X.

PixInsight has a benchmark program built in and all the results
are open to look at:

https://pixinsight.com/benchmark/index.php?sort=cpu&os=all

Interestingly I didn't find your processor even on the list and
the top says it covers about 3000 CPU models. You might
take a look at this when you boil your processor choices down
to 2 or 3.

Note that for the specific processor type you can open up the
group and look at individual machines. Most/many include what
motherboard they were running so that can assist you making
choices also.

Hope this helps,
Mark

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