On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:07 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 5:22 PM, wabe <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I'm using an AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor. I bought it six or seven >>> years ago when it was brand-new. It still works to my satisfaction. But >>> of course recent CPUs (for example AMD Ryzen) are much faster. Therefore >>> I wanna buy an AMD Threadripper next year. This should be an enormous >>> speedup. :-) >>> >> Having just upgraded one of those to a Ryzen 5 1600 I can tell you >> that besides tripling your kernel build speeds, it will also sound >> less like a hair dryer and make your room feel less like it has a >> space heater inside. >> > > My old rig, AMD 2500+ CPU with about 3 or 4GBs of ram. My new rig, AMD > Phenom II X4 955 with 16GBs of ram. My old rig, pulled about 400 watts > from the wall, while idle. My new rig, pulls about 160 watts idle and > that includes monitor, router and all. I don't think my little speakers > are plugged into the UPS. Thing is, my new rig according to my math is > almost 10 times as fast. It has a lot more ram and more drives than the > old rig. > > More to your point, my old rig used 80mm fans. It had lots of them. > CPU, several on the case including some I added myself. It made some > noise for sure. My new case is a Cooler Master HAF-932. It has those > 200mm fans which move a lot of air but turn pretty slowly, which means > quiet. Thing is, the newer and faster rig runs cooler, quieter and > faster than the old rig by far. > > Isn't it amazing how efficient and fast newer computers are? It's > almost worth the energy saving to upgrade. If a person runs their > system 24/7, that is even more reason. >
It's something I used to bring up in #gentoo when people would come in and ask or complain about compilation times. The amortization period for computers is generally 3 years. If you use them longer, you are (in theory) losing money relative to your competitors. As a home user, your time and energy budgets might not be so tight, but the lack of stress is worth a nice desktop for compiling your software. > Dale > > :-) :-) >
