On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 04:38:33PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
I should hasten to add: The AMD A4-7300 64-bit dual-core CPU + GPU you were talking about is magnficient but is from AMD's higher-power-consumption 2014 'Kaveri' line of mobile-targeted SoCs that (as you say) fit in FM2 sockets. Kaveri is part of AMD's 'Steamroller' architecture, 2014 successor to 2013's 'Piledriver' (Trinity/Richland) SoCs, and is on 28nm dies.
yep, i'm sure it's possible, even easy, to find different or better CPUs for various optimisation needs, but my purpose today was to highlight the cheapest current combination of parts....a quick and dirty exercise that took me a whole 60 seconds of "research" (looking at the MSY price list :) if i was actually considering an upgrade myself at the moment, i'd spend a lot more time than that investigating the various options and coming up with the optimum parts lists for my needs at a price I consider reasonable. personally, i'm not that interested in the FM2/FM2+ series because I prefer separate graphics cards, usually nvidia (the proprietary nvidia driver is, unfortunately, still much better than the free software nvidia or radeon or intel GPU drivers), so my motherboard is an AM3+ model (asus sabertooth 990FX). At the moment i have an AMD 1090T Phenom II 6-core CPU, which i've had for several years now. I could upgrade to the 8-core FX-8350 but IMO it's not quite worth doing that for $245, so i'll wait to see what the next generation looks like. if it's good, there's a reasonable chance i'll be able to upgrade to it without having to replace my motherboard (and if i do have to replace the m/b then my win7 games box will get the current board & CPU as an upgrade).
Because it's 2015 and because KVM virtualisation is a thing of much wonderment.
yep more ram is good. multi-core 64-bit CPUs are great and virtualisation is very useful. having reasonably recent hardware and not having to stuff around with ancient crap is fantastic. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>