CPU != today's bottleneck
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When it comes to newer, better and faster technologies even geeks happen to be the ones that throw away their knowledge against better knowledge and buy whatever shows the higher measure unit/product number/version count.
It's a pity; whilst there is nothing wrong with spending your time to compile that new Linux kernel every three days or so, it is plain right stupid to scrap a 1400MHz cpu for, say, a 1800MHz cpu. The discrepancy in cost vs work efficiency is minimal in this example.
I have asked myself the question: What advantage will a new CPU give me? Will it make that windowed os which I love so much boot faster? Will it make my email download faster? As funny as it sounds, that's what Intel is advertizing their p4 chips with in my country.
When I now look at how I could possibly speed this already incredibly fast FreeBSD toy of mine even more, in terms of effective result, which steps do I need to take? First off, I need to get rid of this old and awkward IDE harddisk. Preferably I'd tune in a SCSI raid, with lots of cache on those harddisks. That would probably give me a serious advantage, probably the highest I could achieve this easily; though, that would be redudant, because my X starts in less than two seconds ( with enlightenment and gnome) when I start it the second time anyway.
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When it comes to newer, better and faster technologies even geeks happen to be the ones that throw away their knowledge against better knowledge and buy whatever shows the higher measure unit/product number/version count.
It's a pity; whilst there is nothing wrong with spending your time to compile that new Linux kernel every three days or so, it is plain right stupid to scrap a 1400MHz cpu for, say, a 1800MHz cpu. The discrepancy in cost vs work efficiency is minimal in this example.
I have asked myself the question: What advantage will a new CPU give me? Will it make that windowed os which I love so much boot faster? Will it make my email download faster? As funny as it sounds, that's what Intel is advertizing their p4 chips with in my country.
When I now look at how I could possibly speed this already incredibly fast FreeBSD toy of mine even more, in terms of effective result, which steps do I need to take? First off, I need to get rid of this old and awkward IDE harddisk. Preferably I'd tune in a SCSI raid, with lots of cache on those harddisks. That would probably give me a serious advantage, probably the highest I could achieve this easily; though, that would be redudant, because my X starts in less than two seconds ( with enlightenment and gnome) when I start it the second time anyway.