3:43 PM - (no subject)
I just broke down and bought some parts to update one of my servers. It's one of the oldest systems here and yet I do most of the compiling for MIdnightBSD on it .
Going from a Core 2 Duo E6420 (2.13Ghz) to AMD Athlon II X4 3.0Ghz. Considering this is my magus, tinderbox and MySQL server, it's going to be a real bump up.
Magus is the build software for MidnightBSD packages. It takes about 2.5 days to do a run right now on this machine. This includes downloading everything and compiling. I can run it in parallel and some ports now support parallel make operations too. Four cores actually make a difference here.
It amazes me how expensive processors are right now. Intel had some insane prices. They want $120 for a dual core chip (core i3). Considering I just bought a quad core for $99, I don't think that makes sense. I realize AMD chips aren't as fast as Intel, but it's not that different. A socket 775 Q8300 was like $150 and that's old technology and FSB memory access. No thank you.