On 09/12/2015 22:39, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2015-12-02 um 23:13 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> >> I consider buying a new machine for my office in december. >> >> The intel core-i7-6xxx look interesting to me, although the plain CPU >> performance isn't that much better than my plain old i7-2600 when I look >> at cpunbenchmark.net >> >> I assume the overall package makes more difference: DDR4-RAM, etc etc > > Ordered today. Looking forward .. > It will be triple-boot: gentoo, fedora, win10 (as I paid for it) > > ordered with standard 8 gigs of RAM for a start, more later. > right now my box uses 1425 megs with full gnome-3.18 running ... so what > ... > > I assume an optimized kernel will perform quite well on that CPU. > Although I am no expecting too much. 5yrs of improvement ? ;)
Did you get an SSD as well? It's one of the biggest performance improvements you can make[1] and to be honest is worth more overall than expensive CPUs. [1] The other huge improvement is another 8G of RAM and make /var/tmp/portage a tmpfs with default settings (it will use up to 8G RAM on demand). Everything you build will fit, including firefox and libreoffice -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
