On 2 May 2013 10:22, Danilo Pianini <[email protected]> wrote: > 2013/5/1 Ian Whyman <[email protected]>: >> I'm not sure I would ever has said that a Pentium 4 has decent performance. > > Depending on what you do, it does. Against the equivalent old AMD they are not great. They eat power like anything, and make a load of heat.
>> If you are still relying on chips from earlier than 2005 to do any >> serious work you should consider an upgrade (save power and better >> performance from even an i3) or virtualising the workload onto one >> hypervisor. > > Thank you for the suggestion, bus as long as I will work in the place > I am I will have very little power to push people for hardware > upgrades, especially when the "what's wrong with the current setup?" > question arises. > So those P4 and the Minimac will remain there for a long time, and I > would like to keep running Sabayon server :) I can only guess you are not a working for a business, where such justification as cost saving through reduced power usage (and cooling costs) and actually having hardware vendor support in the case of hardware failure would mean something. Its great you want to continue using Sabayon though! -- Ian Whyman v00d00.net
