[opensuse] CPU reviews or comparisons for the average Linux user?
Hey all, I'm trying to find some useful reviews comparing CPUs (hopefully a broad selection, not just the 3 latest out of any given factory) for the average Linux office-progam desktop user. Reviews that take the 2 very latest Intel and AMD DualCores and compre them to each other are pretty much worthless for most people - it's like comparing apples from different sides of the same tree (or off the same branch). I don't care how fast a CPU runs 3D programs, Games and Video/Audio encoding. What runs KDE the fastest when you have all the standard office applications running (FireFox, OpenOffice, Kontact) and SpamAssassin starts sucking the life out of your box when Kontact checks for new mail? Yes, there are plenty of reviews out there, but most of them do not tell me if the latest Dual-Core 64-bit Whoppie runs Kcalc, emacs or apache faster than my ailing P4 3.2 Ghz. Most of them focus on gaming, 3D, floating point intensive Windows applications. I'm not interested in that. Does anyone have any links or personal experience they'd like to share? Thanks, JW -- ---------------------- jw@mailsw.com - System Administrator - Cedar Creek Software www.cedarcreeksoftware.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Hey all,
I'm trying to find some useful reviews comparing CPUs (hopefully a broad selection, not just the 3 latest out of any given factory) for the average Linux office-progam desktop user.
Reviews that take the 2 very latest Intel and AMD DualCores and compre them to each other are pretty much worthless for most people - it's like comparing apples from different sides of the same tree (or off the same branch).
I don't care how fast a CPU runs 3D programs, Games and Video/Audio encoding.
What runs KDE the fastest when you have all the standard office applications running (FireFox, OpenOffice, Kontact) and SpamAssassin starts sucking the life out of your box when Kontact checks for new mail?
Yes, there are plenty of reviews out there, but most of them do not tell me if the latest Dual-Core 64-bit Whoppie runs Kcalc, emacs or apache faster than my ailing P4 3.2 Ghz. Most of them focus on gaming, 3D, floating point intensive Windows applications. I'm not interested in that.
So you might consider to be happy to stay with your "ailing" PIV 3,2 for a couple of more years. ;-)) Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 24 February 2007, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Dual-Core 64-bit Whoppie runs Kcalc, emacs or apache faster than
my ailing P4 3.2 Ghz. Most of them focus on gaming, 3D, floating point intensive Windows applications.
Its all faster. A rising tide lifts all boats. A P4 3.2 is no slouch, I have one my self, but the Core 2 Duo makes it look slow. I really don't do much gaming either. I tend to use mine for compiles, running several Virtual Machines (vmware) at the same time, etc. These things are dirt cheap these days. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jonathan Wilson wrote:
What runs KDE the fastest when you have all the standard office applications running (FireFox, OpenOffice, Kontact) and SpamAssassin starts sucking the life out of your box when Kontact checks for new mail?
In that scenario, I think you'll find that how responsive your system is has more to do with how much RAM you have than how fast your CPU is. Those applications are all memory hogs, and swapping to disk will bog your system right down. I consider 512M a minimum, these days. Anything above 1G is probably past the point of diminishing returns for the kind of usage you're talking about, unless you're editing large image files in GIMP. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 25 February 2007 23:56, David Brodbeck wrote:
Jonathan Wilson wrote:
What runs KDE the fastest when you have all the standard office applications running (FireFox, OpenOffice, Kontact) and SpamAssassin starts sucking the life out of your box when Kontact checks for new mail?
In that scenario, I think you'll find that how responsive your system is has more to do with how much RAM you have than how fast your CPU is. Those applications are all memory hogs, and swapping to disk will bog your system right down. I consider 512M a minimum, these days. Anything above 1G is probably past the point of diminishing returns for the kind of usage you're talking about, unless you're editing large image files in GIMP.
Besides swapping there is also graphic subsystem that needs improvement. With many applications running, system with 512 MB is quite responsive with external graphic card, and not so with internal. There are 2 reasons: 1) When adapter chip is accessing the RAM than CPU has to wait, 2) Many windows need space in graphic memory and if there is no enough application window will be redrawn each time you get focus on it, and that will appear as slow response. Recently I upgraded graphic adapter to one with 256 MB of RAM and with my habit to have quite few opened applications, ie. windows, including the GIMP, new card made system much snappier. What it does not is to make CPU run faster :-) That is the case when GIMP has a lot to calculate. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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