Wim Cossement

J.O. Aho wrote:
> Wim Cossement wrote:
>
>> It would be a PC for sure but the biggest question is about the type of
>> CPU I'd be using.
>>
>> AMD or Intel?
>> How many cores?
>> 32 or 64 bit?
>
> Much depends on to what you will be using the computer too.
>
> I have a variety of architectures on my computers, Sparc 64bit, PowerPC 32bit,
> x86 (AMD), amd64 and at work x86_64 (Intel). Thats in reverse CPU power order
> and I must say that the x86_64 feels a lot more laggish than my x86, but it
> could be the crap that HP makes that makes so bad.
>
> I favor AMD CPUs, even if they aren't as powerful as the Intels nowadays.

Well I don't have any expercience yet with AMD 64 so perhaps this is a
good chance... :-)

> When it comes to the number of cores depends on how much larger you want your
> power bill to be. As we have working SMP in Linux, 2+ is ok.

I don't have to pay it but it would be nice to have something that is
capable of using less power when it's not needed.

> If you mean the CPU, 64 bit, as you will have to pay a load more to get those
> few 32bit CPUs, motherboards and AGP graphics cards and you will get a quite
> weak machine too.
> If you mean 32/64 bit OS, then it's a bit question about who important all the
> win32 codeces for the mediaplayers are for you, if not that important go for
> the 64bit OS (install multilib, so you can use all the 32bit binaries).

I won't be needing those codecs too much so that's not really an issue.

Thanks for the tips y'all

Wimmy