In my eyes AMD has fallen way behind the times. The Phenom X4 quad core
processors don't have much on-die L2 cache and the different package
profiles are a real pain. I don't know what is selling better for AMD,
their ATI-branded graphics boards or their processor lines.
http://products.amd.com/en-us/comparison/DesktopCPU.aspx
I just priced a very nice Dell Vostro 420 system. The Intel Q6600 quad
core processor offers 12M of L2 and based on my work with slower
versions of the Q6600...that is a lot of speed. It's probably cheaper
and more gratifying (in terms of real development products you produce)
to buy one of these rather than going with a self-built AMD system. Most
of my exposure is to the low end of both Intel and AMD consumer-focused
processors. I don't think I've worked with either Opteron or Xeon
processors for example. I wanted to build an Opteron system for myself,
but then I became really interested in building circuits and physical
computing.
I don't know if the AMD Opteron processors are any better than the
Phenom X4. It's hard to get through the hype on AMD's website and look
at some Opteron comparison charts.
Bob
On 05/02/2009 02:40 PM, Tod Thomas wrote:
I'm shopping for a new developer machine for which I'll be using
Fedora as the development platform. Its been about about 7-8 years
since I built a machine from scratch but since then I've accumulated a
lot of parts that ultimately could contribute to a nice box if I had
the right motherboard.
I'm partial to AMD chips. I'm not a gamer but I do like nice visuals
and decent sound. I've got a good video and sound card now but they
are both 7-8 years old. I suspect things have changed a lot and
almost wonder if newer motherboards don't offer better on board now.
I plan on taking advantage of virtualization so I imagine memory and
processing speed would be indicated. Over the long run I always seem
to run out of PCI slots or USB ports so that would be a premium.
Economy is also a bonus. I don't mind paying for performance and
extensibility but if I could get something pretty decent at a low cost
maybe I could buy a couple and replace another older board I have
running. I also like BIOS's that are tweak friendly.
Right now the fastest machine in my fleet is an Intel Pentium M 1.4
GHz running on a dell laptop. My desktop (development) is running an
old AMD Thunderbird which I don't even think breaks 1GHz and has only
.5Gb of onboard memory.
Sorry for off topic, just thought this might be the best place to get
an idea of what everybody else is using since we all share interest in
the same development platform. Flame me directly, spare the list :)
Thanks - Tod
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