Building a new PC

[TheMagicM]

Right now I am running:

AMD Athlon XP2800 2ghz
1.5 gig ram
500gig hd (IDE)
SuSE 10.0


Ordered/building:

Intel Core2Duo E6750 2.66ghz
2 gigs ram
500 gig SATA2 hd
SuSE 10.x (either 10.0 or 10.3 if 10.3 will work with my wifi card)

Will I notice a huge speedup?  Or is "speedup" just a relative term.  I guess I'm thinking Amiga days.. boot up in 68k.. installed a 060 and OMG this sucker just FLIES!!

[Piru]

Well the 6750 runs circles around the athlon, so you should. I'd also assume the 2gigs ram will be DDR2-800 or so, that will make the system even faster in comparison.

I upgraded from athlon xp 2400+ to E6320 @ 2.8GHz + 2GB DDR2-800 + SATA2 HDD, and the system is visibly say 2-3 times faster at least.

[jj]

What do you use your PC for that you need that sort of power can I ask ?

[countzero]

what OS will you be running on that beast ?

[TheMagicM]

Piru: yes, PC26400-800.    good to hear that the power increase will be noticeable.


JJ: Windows Vista.  just kidding.  I've never really had a PC that was "up with the times".  There are things I want to do but its just too much for my current system.  IE.  Boot into linux and run VMWare, in VMware run XP and Nikon pic editing software.  Problem with the Nikon stuff its too slow on my current system.  Cant run Photoshop CS3 or OSX (in vmware) because of my processor.  


countzero: SuSE 10.3 or Ubuntu.  I have a wifi card that works under 10.0 SuSE but I had a hard time making it work under 10.3 so I reverted back to 10.0.  I will be looking for a card that works well under both distros.

[Piru]

In directly CPU bound and multithreadable tasks you can expect quite a power boost:

Processor Arithmetic Benchmark from SiSoftware Sandra Lite (Win32 x86) 2008.1.12.30

[jj]

Well obviously , there is no way that spec machine would run Vista comftably, there is no such manice made yet .

Joking aside, because you side Linux wwas going tobe your OS of choice, I knew it wasnt to play games, so was just curious to what you used your pc for.

Runs rings around my rig of AMD64 x2 4400 +, 2gig of ram, and X850 XT  :-D