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 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SsYvZ-0004bR-0o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:36:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 36C30E05E4; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:36:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48A43E055C for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:33:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41571B4092 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:33:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.134 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.134 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.125, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, FSL_RCVD_USER=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 2eIont2olE_x for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:33:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D00E1B40C6 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:33:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SsYsD-0003o1-J9 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:33:29 +0200 Received: from athedsl-353129.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.235.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:33:29 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-353129.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:33:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : (1) which CPU ? Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:33:05 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20120720072442.GD2871@ca.inter.net> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-353129.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120720 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <20120720072442.GD2871@ca.inter.net> X-Archives-Salt: c8a0449f-dcbc-4347-8b2c-165eebd53dae X-Archives-Hash: 38043db08cf8354a7e99a92a713e7ad0 On 20/07/12 10:24, Philip Webb wrote: > I plan to build a new machine in the next few months: > it wb for regular desktop use, but performance is as important as price. > > A quick look at what was available in April suggested > an Intel Ivy Bridge i7 ( 22 nm ) ; Phoronix said it works with Kernel 3.2 > + an Intel Z77 mobo (I usually buy ASUS) & that power/watt was excellent. The best performance for money is the i5 2550K CPU. If you want the integrated graphics because you don't have an actual graphics card, you can go for the 2500K. This is a Sandy Bridge CPU. I normally don't recommend the Ivy Bridge ones because they run hotter, so changing the clock multipliers isn't as fun as with Sandy Bridge.