Comments on: Overpowered?

By: Dave Knowles

Dave Knowles — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:39:59 +0000

I`m building my own gaming pc on a budget of under £400, i think i have the best system for the budget i have, you can follow my progress at the squidoo lens.

By: The Doctor

The Doctor — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:41:59 +0000

I just want to throw out the thought that newer (ie: AMD Athlon Brisbane dual-cores) kit runs with less power consumption. A X2 5050e/2.6GHz) uses 45W @ full load, while my Sempron 2800+/1.6GHz (active as 24×7 headless server/rtorrent slave… Thks for that post!) uses 62W. SSD’s use less than mechanical, IIRC.

Heh. I’m hardly a home user though… I’m also looking @ getting a couple of Intel Pro MT for NIC-bonding… gotta be able to move GBs ASAP in my lil’lab.

By: Zeist

Zeist — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:20:39 +0000

I’m a professional developer, so big amounts of compiling is standard in my everyday life. For me taking advantage of four fast cores to compile saves hours of compile time per day.

Also, part of what I develop are things like GPU image processing, which requires me to find ways to take advantage of the latest in graphics card technology. So I need to keep up to date with the latest graphics cards as well.

Then again, I do not and will never run Ubuntu, and as such this doesn’t really apply to me. I spend quite a bit of time tuning my Gentoo system to be as optimized as possible even though it’s a 3GHz C2Q

By: Timmy

Timmy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:18:54 +0000

I think you’re doing something wrong. I had a Sony VAIO PCG-TR3A (1000 Mhz, 512 MB RAM), whose screen broke recently, but before that it was running Hardy and Intrepid quite comfortably.

By: thealphanerd

thealphanerd — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:48:18 +0000

You’re welcome. You’ll have to install stuff at the terminal using a similar procedure, but should be about the same results afterward.

By: Mulenmar

Mulenmar — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:36:20 +0000

Then you might like this:

http://www.mdgx.com

By: rebaj

rebaj — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:30:40 +0000

Technically there isn’t alot of people who use *moderately* powered computer like you, or at least we use those stuff for ol’ reliable home servers,

An Atom based netbook which is probably more than enough for you, is underpowered for most out there. It cant even handle Flash games well (well, youtube’s sd quality is fine..).

And about Crysis, we have no choice but.

By: helf

helf — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:16:45 +0000

I’m glad someone else thinks like this. I know so many people with core2 quad machines and 8gigs of ram that only surf the web and don’t even game. It is a huge waste of money and resources.

My current computer is a Dell GX1 that I’ve upgraded to a 1.4ghz tualatin celeron, 768mb ecc pc133 (max ram), 16gb ssd boot disk, pci sata controller, fx5500 pci video, 500gb sata, and 300gb sata drives and a dvd burner. It does *everything* I want extremely fast and draws a max of 75watts (thats the highest reading I managed from my kill-a-watt ). People I know have seen me using it and were amazed at how “snappy” it is. My other machine is a 33mhz 040 NeXT workstation ;P

By: Jeff Flowers

Jeff Flowers — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:28:23 +0000

K Mandla,

It just occurred to me what your blog is: the Linux version of Lowendmac.com. That is a site dedicated to low end computing, except from a Macintosh point of view.

Unsurprisingly, I’ve never seen a similar site for Windows.

By: clam

clam — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:55:48 +0000

Thank you! I will try that