Hi Andrea, The i5 consumes somewhat less power than the i7, so if energy use is of concern, then get the i5. I think when it comes down to editing pictures, it doesn't really make that much of a difference. I have an i5 and it runs great.
I also have internal graphics and openCL seems to run fine with it. I didn't bother buying a graphics card because it's too much money and I don't play any games and it uses too much energy. I would get 16 GB for the future. RAM will only get more expensive the older it gets. I bought a samsung SSD 840 Pro, 256 GB for the overhead, when it starts failing :D Regards, Glad On 23.06.2014 13:56, andrea.angeloni wrote: > Ciao, > > I'm going to buy a new desktop whose primary job will be to develop raw > using DT. > > I will run Debian stable, actual kernel is 3.2. > > Some questions: > > - does it worth spending money on i7 against i5, given that the only > computational sweat will come from DT? > - can someone point out a GPU known to flawlessly work with DT and > Debian stable? > - is 8 GB RAM enough or it is worth additional effort to reach 16 GB? > - I will buy one SSD and one "common" HD, do I have to take care of > something special related to photo-editing in choosing the models? > > I'm currently using an Intel CPU, older than i3, with 2 GB, and it take > ages to edit 100+ images... > > Thank you all and have a nice day, > Andrea > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions > Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems > Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. > Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration > http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems > > > > _______________________________________________ > Darktable-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
