On 12/06/2010 12:00 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 12:36:39PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Ivan K <ivan_521521@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> My thinking is that for multi-core 64bit, there are less expensive >>> than intel. Am I wrong about this? What multi-core intel 64bit processors >>> are people buying? >>> >>> --- On Sun, 12/5/10, rosea.grammostola <rosea.grammostola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> Why AMD? Just interest... >>>> >>>> \r >> >> In the last year: >> >> Two i5-661 - 2 cores, 4 threads (4GB DRAM) >> One i7-820 - 4 cores, 8 threads (8GB DRAM + 2 disk RAID1) >> One i7-980x - 6 cores, 12 threads (24GB DRAM + 3 disk RAID1 + 2 disk RAID0) >> >> The Intel processors seem (to me) to be more power conscience lately. >> Don't forget to add up the incremental cost of electricity over the >> next few years running a processor without hyper-threading if you go >> that way. You might be better off spending a little more up front to >> save a lot in the long term. > > I'm more pro-Intel since a close encounter with an i5. > > I now have a Thinkpad 410 with i5-M560 that is (mostly) > Linux-friendly, runs cool and is power thrifty. > > * The Intel supplied driver sources work for the integrated GPU > under a recent kernel. (I'm using 2.6.36.) > > * Important Fn-key combinations work. > > * Beeps are still audible with the alsamixer beep control muted. :-( maybe you already knew but here's a "workaround" for X: xset b off > * I'll be replacing the Realtek rtl8192se wireless card. > This is after fruitless hours compiling/fiddling stale > drivers and equally stale ndiswrapper. > > * I haven't tested the firewire. It is Ricoh e832 chipset, > and appears to work, with some problems reported when > the BIOS is set to allow virtual machines. The jack > is the mini size. > > My previous notebook, Toshiba Satellite L305D had an AMD > Turion x2 QL-64 processor, and run an H2O BIOS. It tended to > overheat, always needed to be set up on books for better > airflow, and was on only (barely) acceptable with clock > fixed to 1GHz. > > I suppose I could have bought an external cooler. > But then the LCD developed problems... > > Cheers, > > Joel > > >> - Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
