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 - you > might not even get access to the built-in graphics chip. It requires > certain chipsets and then certain connection on the MB and not all > Core i5 MB's that accept the i5-661 have it. I'm sure you know that > already but maybe the info is helpful for others later.
I knew part of it ;-) I preferred Intel boards for years now and wasn't disappointed. Maybe this time I chose a Lenovo machine with 3 yrs support ...? M90p they call it, I don't know .... > The DH55HC has been a pretty good MB over the last 4-5 months that > I've been running the machine and the graphics are OK. They were not > so good 5 months ago but the driver has gotten noticeably better. Windows driver, I assume? >> So you run "make -j13" or something? > > Exactly. -j13. However there are things to learn about machine > configuration at this level. The disk systems start operating > differently when you have a lot of memory. I'm running 24GB of DRAM > on that machine and this effects the way the kernel looks at write > back to disk and what not. No problems, just new things to learn. interesting. How do you use up 24 gigs of DRAM? Just tell me, I would like to justify that for me as well ;-) > I've wanted to check out compiz but haven't had the time to learn. > One down side to running Gentoo is that you cannot do much of > anything like that without considerable study before hand... Sure ... compiz is part eyecandy, part useful little features. I got used to the features (=would somehow miss them) and the eyecandy (= "ah, yes, it rotates ... hmm, sure ..."). :-) > For the price it's been a good purchase I think. I've run Windows XP > and Win 7 in vmware and the speed is pretty close to identical on > the apps I use. (Mostly TradeStation) I won't do live stock trading > in Win 7 under Gentoo yet but maybe one of these days. It's been very > stable but for safety most of the time when I'm trading I just run > Win 7 native. dualboot then. Haven't booted Windows for months here. Should maybe do and do some gaming instead of hacking around ... ;-) Thanks, greets, Stefan
