[tech] New clubroom machine and graphics card

Scott Young scott at sjy.id.au
Thu Jul 29 18:10:45 WST 2010


I think Anil was suggesting that the Phenom has lower performance (per
core) than the i5, despite having 'only' 4 cores. 6 cores will rarely
be useful and the i5 may be superior in other respects (I don't know).

[SJY]

On 29/07/2010, at 4:33 PM, Mitch Kelly <mitch at ucc.asn.au> wrote:

> 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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