[tech] New clubroom machine and graphics card

[Mitch Kelly]

My point is, An equiv box with LESS cores is more expensive.

"Nobody will ever need more than 640k of memory"

Are you suggesting we buy Single core p4's for use in the club.

This argument is stupid and invalid, If there's something out there for a good price I say we get it, Regardless of how many "cores" it has

-----Original Message-----
From: tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [mailto:tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] On Behalf Of Anil Sharma
Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2010 3:13 PM
To: tech at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au; committee at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Subject: Re: [tech] New clubroom machine and graphics card

I propose getting a number of cores that will actually be used.

make -j kinda counts, except this is going to be a desktop machine,
not a server.

As I've said many times before, it's your club, do what you want.
However, I see zero point in going down the surplus cores, lower
performance route.

Cheers,
Anil

On 29 July 2010 11:30, Mitch Kelly <mitch at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
> Price Diff: (2.8Ghz equiv)
> Hexacore: Price $239.00
> Core i5 (Quad): $259.00
>
> Anil, Are you proposing we spend more on getting Less cores?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [mailto:tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au]
> On Behalf Of Rufus Garton Smith
> Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2010 11:26 AM
> To: Anil Sharma
> Cc: tech at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au; committee at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [tech] New clubroom machine and graphics card
>
> I for one intend to execute make -j at some point.
>
> Rufus
>
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Anil Sharma wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty sure quad-cores are still unnecessary for UCC's desktop
> machines.
>>
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