Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2011-01-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.11.2010 23:26, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I still consider getting a core-i5 or -i7 for christmas :-) Yeah, sure, dream on: jan, 14th and still no new box here! ;-) Today I read about the core-i7-2600K ... sounds even better, cheaper and faster. What I wonder: the i7-2600K does only

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-11-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.07.2010 22:24, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 26.06.2010 19:58, schrieb Mark Knecht: Yesterday afternoon I tried emerge -j5 -DuN @world on an i5-661 machine I also built for my dad. loose followup: I consider buying a i5-661 on a DQ57TM board --- And I still haven't done it ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-11-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 19.07.2010 22:24, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 26.06.2010 19:58, schrieb Mark Knecht: Yesterday afternoon I tried emerge -j5 -DuN @world on an i5-661 machine I also built for my dad. loose followup: I

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-11-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.11.2010 22:16, schrieb Mark Knecht: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: I consider buying a i5-661 on a DQ57TM board --- And I still haven't done it ;-) That's quite a wait! ;-) Yeah, you know --- financial crisis and stuff :-) Yes, I use

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-07-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 21.07.2010 20:35, schrieb Bill Longman: On 06/23/2010 01:59 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: - From /proc/cpuinfo: address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual That's only 8GB physical, but that's probably a reasonable limit at the moment. $ units -1 '2^36 byte' GiB

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-07-21 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/23/2010 01:59 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 23.06.2010 00:27, schrieb Bill Longman: - core i7 @ 1.6GHz gives me eight threads. The RAM is really fast, too, so the overall system is very responsive. Great power savings stuff. quite a plus with the box running for 10 hrs a day at

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-07-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.06.2010 19:58, schrieb Mark Knecht: Yesterday afternoon I tried emerge -j5 -DuN @world on an i5-661 machine I also built for my dad. loose followup: I consider buying a i5-661 on a DQ57TM board --- S

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP real    94m25.632s user    246m19.420s sys     36m19.092s c2stable ~ # Even though i have 12 processor threads you can see the

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 24.06.2010 02:25, schrieb Mark Knecht: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger How do you use up 24 gigs of DRAM? Just tell me, I would like to justify that for me as well ;-) 5 copies of Win7 running in vmware VMs. Each VM gets 20GB of RAID0, 2 processors and 4GB of RAM.

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 24.06.2010 02:25, schrieb Mark Knecht: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger How do you use up 24 gigs of DRAM? Just tell me, I would like to justify that for me as well ;-) 5 copies of Win7

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 24.06.2010 02:25, schrieb Mark Knecht: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger How do you use up 24 gigs of DRAM? Just tell me,

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 24.06.2010 05:04, schrieb kashani: That's works. :-) I was doing a fair amount of rpm building, svn to git with large trees, kickstart, Mysql, and Puppet work at a job a few months ago which was hitting the host fairly hard. Between the above and Outlook getting an extra drive to

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.06.2010 03:43, schrieb Mark Knecht: I'm writing you from an Intel Core i5-661 Clarksdale machine using the built in graphics. I've been fairly impressed with the processor itself, not very impressed with the stock cooling they supplied, and in general find the graphics at least

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.06.2010 04:27, schrieb kashani: I updated from a Q6600 to an i7 860 recently. Not amazing speed wise, but I can run 8 threads and use more than 8GB of RAM. The RAM was the big thing for me. If you're planning to do a lot with VMs I'd suggest at least an extra drive if not more if

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.06.2010 00:27, schrieb Bill Longman: - core i7 @ 1.6GHz gives me eight threads. The RAM is really fast, too, so the overall system is very responsive. Great power savings stuff. quite a plus with the box running for 10 hrs a day at least ... - Haven't tried kvm but would probably work

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 23.06.2010 03:43, schrieb Mark Knecht: I'm writing you from an Intel Core i5-661 Clarksdale machine using the built in graphics. I've been fairly impressed with the processor itself, not very impressed with the

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 24.06.2010 00:13, schrieb Mark Knecht: I don't know if the builtin graphics will allow gaming on the same level, I should go for some benchmark results. But this is definitely not important ... just a nice to have feature maybe. Depending on the MB you choose - I'm using an Intel DH55HC

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 24.06.2010 00:13, schrieb Mark Knecht: I don't know if the builtin graphics will allow gaming on the same level, I should go for some benchmark results. But this is definitely not important ... just a nice to have

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-23 Thread kashani
On 6/23/2010 1:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 23.06.2010 04:27, schrieb kashani: I updated from a Q6600 to an i7 860 recently. Not amazing speed wise, but I can run 8 threads and use more than 8GB of RAM. The RAM was the big thing for me. If you're planning to do a lot with VMs I'd

[gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
again ... I consider buying a new box for work. currently I am still quite happy with my core2duo E6600 with 8 gigs of ram, running ~amd64 ... running fine. but I remember the huge step back then from the pentium 4 ... Will it be the same when I go for a core i5? I use that box for

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/22/2010 02:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: again ... I consider buying a new box for work. currently I am still quite happy with my core2duo E6600 with 8 gigs of ram, running ~amd64 ... running fine. but I remember the huge step back then from the pentium 4 ... Will it be the

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: again ... I consider buying a new box for work. currently I am still quite happy with my core2duo E6600 with 8 gigs of ram, running ~amd64 ... running fine. but I remember the huge step back then from the pentium 4