I can’t find anything to regularly max out my new computer. It’s a i7 920 running at 3.2 GHz, with 9 Gb RAM and a GT260 video card. Granted, Folding at home will do it, instantly, but I’m already in the top 0.4%, so I don’t exactly need to keep beating that dead horse. But beyond that, getting the proc to breathe hard is pretty damn difficult, especially under Ubuntu.
Sure, I said the same thing when I got my Pentium-120, many moons ago, but honestly, this thing has so much MORE idle cycles it’s hard to picture regularly working it hard.
Right now, it’s got the native Ubuntu OS, a 4 cpu VM instance of OSSIM, and another Window XP VM, which is the full-screen front and center OS while Grandma is here. XP is every bit as fast and snappy as if it were the only OS on there. If OSSIM is doing a pen-test, 3 of the 8 execution lines are still idle.
No real point to the thread…but it seems like CPU HP is VASTLY outpacing my ability to use it up, especially under linux.
Eh. I edit HD video on my MacBook Pro with a measly 2.5GHz CPU and 4GB of RAM. No problem, barely breaks a sweat most of the time. For your machine, it should be nothing. Video conversions on the other hand, can take a bit of time (e.g. transcoding a 120GB ProRes file for DVD). I bet that kind of thing could tie it up for quite a while.
Well, that’s the thing, there are two things a computer does, the instant stuff, and the batch processing stuff. This thing may be faster than my last ripping rig, but since you’re usually not around to see it end, it doesn’t matter much.
The last computer had a pokey little Dual Core processor and a 9800 GTX+…I did a LOT of video transcoding with Badaboom to great effect. The new box, using the CPU instead of the GPU, is about 20% faster than the last computer’s GPU.
'That happen to you alot?
Actually, the overriding emotion I’m feeling is guilt. I’m thinking I could have gotten along with a machine that cost half as much as this one, for all the difference it seems to make. Perceptually, the last computer (now relegated to Sever duties in the basement…that was what I really needed) seems 98% as fast as the new one…mostly because the bottleneck sits between keyboard and chair.
