Am 24.06.2010 02:25, schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger >> How do you use up 24 gigs of DRAM? Just tell me, I would like to >> justify that for me as well ;-) > > 5 copies of Win7 running in vmware VMs. Each VM gets 20GB of RAID0, > 2 processors and 4GB of RAM. That's 100GB, 20GB DRAM and 10 threads > total. I then have 2 i7-980X threads & 4GB DRAM for running Gentoo > as the host. Gentoo runs on RAID1 and I have an additional RAID1 > which I use to back up the RAID0 daily.
I see. That's way more than I need here, so I will get through with 8 GB DRAM easily ... > Yeah, dual boot is what I'm doing with the i5-661. The i7-980X only > runs Gentoo and if I need Windows it's in the 5 VMs described above. > > The 980X is expensive to run. It's got 5 hard drives in it (2 for > RAID0, 3 for RAID1) plus the processor and all that memory burns > over 300W at idle. Also too expensive and big for me. I think I will go for the i5 if I decide to upgrade. Thanks, S
