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Today's Topics:

1. New MB/CPU (Andrew McLean)
2. Re: New MB/CPU (Alex Butcher (LUG))


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 17:58:23 +0000
From: Andrew McLean <am57762@gmail.com>
To: LUG <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [bristol] New MB/CPU
Message-ID: <5686BE3F.7080105@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed

I just upgraded my Linux box from a five-year old Intel Q6600 / 2.4GHz to
an AMD FX-8320 3.2 GHZ on a Gigabyte GA-970A; I bought the MB bundle
from Novatech, who I have used before.

The installation (of Linux Mint 17.3 MATE) was easy, and everything worked
as expected. But so far I'm not seeing any performance improvement; in fact
my own threaded programs are slower than before. Obviously I've got a deal
of investigation to do, but I wondered if anyone in the LUG has had
experience
of this combination of hardware and Linux ? Are there any gotchas I need to
be aware of, obvious things I should check etc ? I let the installer do
its own
thing. Could I have used an option to control what it installed more
precisely ?
I have looked on the web, but didn't spot anything helpful so far.

I have run the Phoronix test suite once so far, but the results page seems
completely different from the one I ran on the previous system, so I
can't compare
them. I haven't figured out why that is yet. The old report doesn't seem
to include
the Phoronix version no....

I might decide to temporarily revert to the previous MB, just to collect
more
performance data. If I did that, what performance tools would anyone
recommend,
apart from Phoronix, which is included in Mint 17.3 ?
I guess there must be more basic tools, but I'm not familiar with them.

Yours curiously...,
Andrew McLean




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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 18:04:59 +0000
From: "Alex Butcher (LUG)" <lug@assursys.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] New MB/CPU
Message-ID: <7D337AC5-A7D1-400A-BCD8-72E0654CEE68@assursys.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/560/AMD_FX-Series_FX-8320_vs_Intel_Core_2_Quad_Q6600.html and http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core2-Quad-Q6600-vs-AMD-FX-8320 suggest you probably shouldn't expect much difference in performance between the two, even when running 8 threads.

Best Regards,
Alex

On 1 January 2016 17:58:23 GMT+00:00, Andrew McLean <am57762@gmail.com> wrote:
>I just upgraded my Linux box from a five-year old Intel Q6600 / 2.4GHz
>to
>an AMD FX-8320 3.2 GHZ on a Gigabyte GA-970A; I bought the MB bundle
>from Novatech, who I have used before.
>
>The installation (of Linux Mint 17.3 MATE) was easy, and everything
>worked
>as expected. But so far I'm not seeing any performance improvement; in
>fact
>my own threaded programs are slower than before. Obviously I've got a
>deal
>of investigation to do, but I wondered if anyone in the LUG has had
>experience
>of this combination of hardware and Linux ? Are there any gotchas I
>need to
>be aware of, obvious things I should check etc ? I let the installer do
>
>its own
>thing. Could I have used an option to control what it installed more
>precisely ?
>I have looked on the web, but didn't spot anything helpful so far.
>
>I have run the Phoronix test suite once so far, but the results page
>seems
>completely different from the one I ran on the previous system, so I
>can't compare
>them. I haven't figured out why that is yet. The old report doesn't
>seem
>to include
>the Phoronix version no....
>
>I might decide to temporarily revert to the previous MB, just to
>collect
>more
>performance data. If I did that, what performance tools would anyone
>recommend,
>apart from Phoronix, which is included in Mint 17.3 ?
>I guess there must be more basic tools, but I'm not familiar with them.
>
>Yours curiously...,
>Andrew McLean
>
>
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