mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > any one have experiance with athlon, Phenom, and opteron? if so i'm > curios if it's worth a $15-20 expense. > > -- > The Power Of the People Is Stronger Than The People In Charge.
Check this site out: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php Click on the top section and it will sort by that score. Example, you may want to click CPU Value to get the most bang for the buck. One could click on Rank and then go down the price column until you find one within your budget. Example, if you are willing to spend $1,000 on a CPU, the third one in the ranking will give you the biggest bang. It's the third fastest that has been tested and it is a LOT cheaper than $2,700 for the one in first place. Me, I'd go way down the list until I got to about number 90. It costs about $230.00. That would be my upper end budget. That said, I have this right now. model name: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor I have 16GBs of ram. It does pretty well. genlop -t Fri Aug 18 01:57:52 2017 >>> www-client/firefox-55.0.1 merge time: 1 hour, 57 minutes and 8 seconds. Tue Jul 25 13:30:04 2017 >>> sys-devel/gcc-5.4.0-r3 merge time: 50 minutes and 12 seconds. Wed Jul 26 06:53:51 2017 >>> app-office/libreoffice-5.2.7.2 merge time: 3 hours, 27 minutes and 47 seconds. root@fireball / # Those are with portage's work directory on spinning rust. It is faster on tmpfs but if it is going to upgrade a combination of those, I need more ram. I plan to upgrade to 8 cores and 32GBs of ram at some point. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)
