Ede Wolf <listac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As HT generally has a bad reputation for audio, currently, the AMD > FX-8350 is on top of my list, as the floating point preformance is > said to be rather good and lots of cores should be ideal for running > lots of effects in parallel - though unfortunately not every core > does have its on FPU. As it is not going to run 24/7, the insane > energy consumption is somewhat acceptable. I have a similar AMD FX-8320 and it's a decent machine for the price for doing software development and testing (mostly targeting servers). The big selling point for AMD CPUs is ECC memory support[1] at a much lower price than Intel Xeons. sensors(1) reports power usage via fam15h_power kernel module and mine idles around 35W. It'll max out to 125W when I run a parallel build or SoX effects (mostly integer-based). I went with the Zalman FX-70 heatsink and one of the high static pressure (many blades) Noctua fans on the heatsink. There's only one other 120mm case fan (also Noctua, but low static pressure with few blades). Both fans run at the lowest possible speed, so temperatures hover on the high side around 60C when I max it out. My older AMD Phenom II 945 and my Intel Xeon E3-1230 machines run the bigger Zalman FX-100 fanless (both 95W, AFAIK). Both can run parallel build/test suites all day with only a single, slow, 120mm case fan (which even cools multiple HDDs/SSDs). Fanless PSUs all around :) [1] that said, I'm curious why ECC hasn't taken off in the audio world... _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
