Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-03 Thread Jonathan Wright
Christoph Gysin wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: btw - some time ago I let glxgears run on several wm - and it was the fastest on kwin and integrity (both qt based) and slower on gtk-based wm... glxgears doesn't need/use/depend neither a WM nor GTK/QT, so I don't see how this test

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-03 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 19:11:08 +0200 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some people like the fat,. bloated, eye-candy heavy desktops - especially full experience of all components working together. Not all people choose kde/gnome because of their looks, but because they WANT a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-03 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Wright wrote: But a WM and/or GTK/QT can have an effect on system load overall as well as working with the graphics card, which in the end can slow the gears. Perhaps, but glxgears is a really, REALLY bad benchmark. - -- [Name ] ::

[gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-02 Thread Dave S
Hi all, I have a PIII 700Mhz, 256MB RAM, Finances are somewhat tight (read that as very tight) but I could do with some more speed when playing with python scripts + KDE can be a tad sluggish. The processor is going to have to be either a ... Intel Celeron 2.4GHz 128K 400MHz Socket 478 CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 02 October 2005 09:12, Dave S wrote: Hi all, I have a PIII 700Mhz, 256MB RAM, Finances are somewhat tight (read that as very tight) but I could do with some more speed when playing with python scripts + KDE can be a tad sluggish. The processor is going to have to be either a ...

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-02 Thread Folken
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:12:56AM +0100, Dave S wrote: The GHz sound impressive but I know neither chip is a very powerful, I believe they 'water down' the internals !. I cant find anywhere a comparison between my PIII these two possibilitys. I found a comparision between (almost) your

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-02 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Perhaps you can get a Semprom with a smaller clock but a higher FSB. I have an AMD Semprom 2400+ with 400 Mhz FSB, 1 GB of Ram and I'm very happy with it. It plays all the games I want and I can work in it very smoothly. I recently upgrade to 1 GB of Ram, used to be 512 Mb and the difference is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-02 Thread Dave S
Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Perhaps you can get a Semprom with a smaller clock but a higher FSB. I have an AMD Semprom 2400+ with 400 Mhz FSB, 1 GB of Ram and I'm very happy with it. It plays all the games I want and I can work in it very smoothly. I recently upgrade to 1 GB of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:12:56AM +0100, Dave S wrote Hi all, I have a PIII 700Mhz, 256MB RAM, Finances are somewhat tight (read that as very tight) but I could do with some more speed when playing with python scripts + KDE can be a tad sluggish. Running a fat bloated resource-hogging