[PD] single vs dual vs 64

[Miller Puckette]

Absolutely not boring!

I'd get two slow machines- it's much cheaper than one fast one.  Anyway,
you already have one slow one, if you don't mind that it probably eats 200
watts, so just get one more and run whichever of video or audio takes more
CPU on the faster one. 

64 bit archs might run slower than 32 bit ones, and anyway Pd can't take
advantage of bits 32 through 63 yet (because I haven't bought a 64 bit machine
yet and don't know what Pd would have to do to take advantage of 64-ness.)

It's very cheap to put together a P4 2-3 Ghz. or Athlon XP 2500-2800, and
either one will be so fast you can't imagine how to use all that power.
The drag will be your OS (if not open source) or else the impossibility of
figuring out how to optimize it (if it is.)

cheers
Miller

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 07:11:10PM -0800, manolo cabezabolo wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i've using pd+gem for a while and i see my linux box
> using 99% cpu forever ;) ... and never working with rt
> cause it hangs my machine,
> 
> it's time to buy a new computer, and my cuestion is
> about the pros and contras of diferent architectures
> ::
> 
> AMD 3000+ can be, but i think it's not much better
> than my 1800 ... 
> 
> another is AMD 3000+ 64bits, all is working optimized
> for 64 bits in linux+pd ? i mean it's really a good
> choice? much more than 32 bits?
> 
> and the last, but so expensive ;), is dual AMD
> Opteron, i supose here is the best for my ... but
> really it offers the results that i must to pay?
> 
> mmm.... thanks.
> 
> sorry if i ask something repeated and boring ...
> 
> kbzbl. 
> 
> 
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