Desktop hardware recommendation

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 04:29:54PM -0400, ted leslie wrote:
> I used Lennart advise on power supply and it was really good advise!
> i built a I7 2.8ghz box, and OC it to 4.4 ghz on rampage III. (stable
> at about 4.1 long term, 4.4 requires voltage settings i didn't feel
> comfortable with).

4.4GHz?  Sheesh.  Is 2.8GHz the 930?

On the other hand:
processor       : 0
cpu             : POWER6 (raw), altivec supported
clock           : 4204.000000MHz
revision        : 3.1 (pvr 003e 0301)

That's stock speed, and the slowest model there was.  There are two
cores with two threads each.  The price of the box has 5 digits, but
fortunately the first digit was only a 1.  The second digit was a
bit higher.  They don't make them anymore as far as I know.

> Only issue is, it's sata6 doesn't seem supported, but may be supported
> in kernel now. (i bought a sata6 flash HD, only running at sata3).
> My only advise is given insane over clocking of i7, be aware of the
> cheap extra ghz you can get if you get a quality rig.
> Your $/ghz may be a LOT better if you spend just a bit more .. i.e. a
> store i7 is going to really sux given whats you can achieve with the
> right mobo and ram.

I noticed recently that the Core i7 920 is still almost as much as it
was when I bought one 2 years ago.  I had expected it to get cheaper
in the meantime.  The higher end i7 9xx models have dropped in price
as faster models came in, but the bottom model (as much as a 2.66GHz
quad core with HT can be a bottom model) is almost the same price as it
originally released at.

> Oh, hiber/sleep not so good yet (again not most recent kernel) but i
> don't use it. I'd say if you need hiber/sleep functionality your
> search for a bleeding edge good system just
> got more complicated.

Yeah sleep can be tricky.  I am always amazed that it simply works on
my lenovo thinkpad SL500.

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Len Sorensen
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