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Re: Hardware Requirements for a New Job

Subject: Re: Hardware Requirements for a New Job
From: "Edgar D' Souza" <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 14:49:39 +0530

What about heat? I have a Turion ML-30, 64-bit 1.6GHz processor. It
runs SO hot that I have been forced to get a cooling pad to keep
temperatures within sane levels. A laptop, this is not - merely a
highly portable desktop :-( If I did use it on my lap, I would risk
severe discomfort, if not worse. And this is with a half-inch gap
between CPU heatsink and the base.
Part of the problem is that this Acer laptop has its air intakes on
the bottom - to make space for other features, I guess :-/ but that
means cooling isn't as effective - and if I park it on my lap, air
circulation will be pretty much blocked off.
Mind you, I'm not even *doing* 3D stuff on this. Merely running a
Linux desktop and VMWare WinXP.

Most (not all, I guess) of Intel's mobile CPUs don't run so hot. I've
had other laptops (borrowed) with Centrino/M series processors, and
actually used them on my lap. Reviews say that Core 2 Duo processors
run noticeably cooler.

I applaud your very savvy choice - I have been an AMD fan for a long
time. Upgrades aren't an option for me, though - not for quite some
time to come! :-)

Cheers,
Ed.

On 10/7/06, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:

Intel and AMD regularly trade off the title of "fastest cpu,"
sometimes so quickly you'll miss the hand-off if you
sneeze. Advertising and enthusiastic reviews not
withstanding, "beating the pants off" as it applies to
cpu speed comparisons usually consists of a margin
somewhere in the area of under 5%. Unless you're
sequencing DNA, solidifying massive 3D point clouds
or runing some other operation that will be crunching
numbers for hours at a time, the odds are you will never
notice the difference.

My choice for my own (personal) system was a dual
processor AMD Opteron, because AMD has laid out
an impressive upgrade path that enables a single-
processor Opteron board to be upgraded to dual and
eventually to quad core processors with only a BIOS
update.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message -----
From: "Edgar D' Souza" <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>

> No personal experience there, but most of the reviews I've read say
> that Intel's Core 2 Duo beats the pants off anything AMD has/had, in
> terms of improved power efficiency and less heat dissipation. I don't
> remember about the price/performance ratio, but I think it's pretty
> close there, too!

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References:
Hardware Requirements for a New Job: From: Johnson, Tom
Re: Hardware Requirements for a New Job: From: Al Geist
Re: Hardware Requirements for a New Job: From: Edgar D' Souza
Re: Hardware Requirements for a New Job: From: Gene Kim-Eng

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