From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7642013800E for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:16:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB2EFE0693; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:16:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7079FE0687 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:14:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 055351B41E5 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:14:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.133 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.133 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.124, 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 fEmxqkUAa3mo for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:14:46 +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 00D1F1B41E7 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:14:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ssvzb-0006kk-S0 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:14:39 +0200 Received: from athedsl-346317.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.208.107]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:14:39 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-346317.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:14:39 +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: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:14:25 +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-346317.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120720 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 82089a1a-6784-41f5-b6b8-af580f5ef80c X-Archives-Hash: 2d5332a0ebc15e8c85ac139fd23cc166 On 22/07/12 06:18, Alecks Gates wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> 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. >> >> > > Actually according to the link Florian linked here[1], AMD is doing > extremely well regarding price/performance. Unless you want a Celeron > or a Pentium. i5s do rate up there, though... these tests are also > from Windows. > > [1] http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html I mean performance that doesn't suck :-P