On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 5:22 PM, wabe <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm using an AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor. I bought it six or seven > years ago when it was brand-new. It still works to my satisfaction. But > of course recent CPUs (for example AMD Ryzen) are much faster. Therefore > I wanna buy an AMD Threadripper next year. This should be an enormous > speedup. :-) >
Having just upgraded one of those to a Ryzen 5 1600 I can tell you that besides tripling your kernel build speeds, it will also sound less like a hair dryer and make your room feel less like it has a space heater inside. That said, I'd check any chip you buy for the week number to ensure that it doesn't have the segfault issue if you're going to use it with Gentoo. I am using mine with ECC RAM and can report that seems to work fine, though you should check for MB recommendations for that. -- Rich
