Doug Franklin wrote:
The I7 is probably a bit faster overall, even at a lower clock speed,
for normal usage. Get the fastest memory that the motherboard supports.
I expected things to get better, but was shocked at how much more
responsive my E8500 system was after replacing the 4GB of PC2-6400
(800MHz) memory with 4GB of PC2-8500 (DDR2 1066MHz) memory.
At work our sys admins had really hard time making I7 not overheat... I7
is faster, probably not just "a bit", but E8400 is fast enough.
If you're using a 64-bit Windows, be careful about 64-bit drivers. A
fair amount of gear that's as little as two or three years old doesn't
have and won't ever get 64-bit Windows drivers. I don't know what the
situation is for 64-bit Linux/BSD/*nix or MacOS. This seems especially
to be true of cheaper products, like by US$50 Canon LiDE 50 flatbed
scanner. In some cases, I think the 32-bit drivers can be used in
64-bit XP, Vista, or 7, but I'm not sure of that, and I am sure that
some just won't work without 64-bit Windows drivers.
Agreed, but so far I had no driver problems.
BTW, my current main system, right at a year old is:
E8500 3.16GHz Core 2 Duo
Asus P5Q-E (P45, ICH10R)
4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8500 (DDR2 1066MHz) DRAM
nVidia 9800GT 512MB PCI Express 2.0 video
4 x 320GB SATA-II drives in RAID 10 (striped over two mirror pairs)
Windows XP Pro SP3 32-bit usually
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit occasionally now that I have the RTM version
64-bit Linux (Ubuntu or SuSE) when I spend the time to get the RAID
drivers to properly coexist with the Windows RAID
I forgot to mention that I have nVidia GEForce 8800 GT card with 1GB
memory. I am hoping that future versions of LR will have CUDA support
and then this card will be put to a good use.
Boris
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