[PLUG] Which CPU

james at bertelson.me james at bertelson.me
Fri Mar 2 20:17:00 UTC 2018


You might consider picking up something like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Optiplex-3010-Mini-Tower-3-20GHz-Core-i5-160gb/382376863432?hash=item59076fe6c8:g:9GoAAOSwdjVafb8D

For a bit under $90 (local PDX area pickup is free if you ask, I've done that with this seller twice) you get your quad core i5 AND 16GB of RAM (2x8GB) and if you want you can just recycle the rest (or stick your old Celeron in it for a secondary box/server?) 

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March 2, 2018 11:20 AM, "Chuck Hast" <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:

> That is going to be my next step, I have moved all of my laptops to SSD,
> the ones that I use day to day are both i7's and now have SSD's.
> 
> I am going to look at the i5's That maybe the way to go.
> 
> I have 8g of memory in the machine most of them time it will have about
> half or less of it used, and it never appears to even touch the disk for
> memory.
> 
> Will look at the i5. That and the SSD maybe all I need for this one.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> SSD makes booting so nice. like ubuntu desktop in 5-10 seconds down from
>> 45-60.
>> 
>> about a year ago I bought 4 or 5 i5's from ebay from different vendors, all
>> have been working fine.
>> 
>> I am seeing i7 1155's for $50 (current bid) to $99 (buy it now)
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Galen Seitz <galens at seitzassoc.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> On 03/02/2018 09:43 AM, Chuck Hast wrote:
>> 
>> Well, the cooling is liquid, has a large heat exchanger to get rid of
>> the
>> heat
>> and the CPU part is a large piece of copper that is held down on the
>> CPU,
>> the heat is moved out of the copper block via heat pipe to the heat
>> exchanger.
>> 
>> I see the i7's all over the place too. From boxed devices for over $500
>> to
>> used
>> on Ebay, so looks like the selection is all over the place.
>> 
>> I see a lot of 3.40 mHz devices, not so many 3.50 mHz units.
>> 
>> Have you maxed out the memory, and are you using an SSD? I think you
>> should do that first if you haven't already.
>> 
>> Regarding the processor, I agree with Bill W in that an i5 will likely
>> give you a noticeable improvement without breaking the bank. The change
>> from an i5 to an i7 would be less noticeable. Unless you doing something
>> truly compute intensive that can take advantage of the extra threads, the
>> difference between the i5 and i7 will be minimal.
>> 
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