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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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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Hallo, Miller Puckette hat gesagt: // Miller Puckette wrote:
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.)
However the AMD64 CPUs are very fast in 32bit mode, as well, and I think, they even suck less power and thus allow machines which are more quiet. At least to me, a quiet box is important, though I suppose, other musicians see (or hear) this similarily. (And for a quiet machine, the choice of graphics card is an important one as well.)
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On Mar 22, 2005, at 9:11 PM, 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,
Perhaps you are either doing a ton of pix_ based processing or you don't have hardware OpenGL? The GL problem is solved by getting the correct video card drivers or upgrading the card. The pix_ problem is best solved by purchasing a dual G5 system.
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