On 22/07/12 06:18, Alecks Gates wrote:
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 20/07/12 10:24, Philip Webb wrote:
I plan to build a new machine in the next few months:
it wb for regular desktop use, but performance is as important as price.
A quick look at what was available in April suggested
an Intel Ivy Bridge i7 ( 22 nm ) ; Phoronix said it works with Kernel 3.2
+ an Intel Z77 mobo (I usually buy ASUS) & that power/watt was excellent.
The best performance for money is the i5 2550K CPU. If you want the
integrated graphics because you don't have an actual graphics card, you can
go for the 2500K.
This is a Sandy Bridge CPU. I normally don't recommend the Ivy Bridge ones
because they run hotter, so changing the clock multipliers isn't as fun as
with Sandy Bridge.
Actually according to the link Florian linked here[1], AMD is doing
extremely well regarding price/performance. Unless you want a Celeron
or a Pentium. i5s do rate up there, though... these tests are also
from Windows.
[1] http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html
I mean performance that doesn't suck :-P
