[LAU] another cpu question

[Joakim Hernberg]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 19:44:19 +0200
Ede Wolf <listac at nebelschwaden.de> wrote:

> The price advantage for the AMD would probably be eaten up by the
> more expensive colling - I prefer it rather quiet - and the higher
> energy bill. But if it would be the more adequate CPU for this very
> workload, I would go that route.  i7 are all HT, so that would leave
> the i5 as only other option.

IME, HT dosen't have to be a showstopper.  It's conceptually "wrong" to
use it if you are relying on linux realtime processing, but in real life
it's normally not a problem with audio, unless you push the system real
hard doing other things.  I also theorize that on an i7 it can lead to
cache depletion and cause long xruns when the CPU is heavily loaded.

On the other hand you can normally just disable HT in the BIOS, so with
the right motherboard it shouldn't be a criteria to disqualify a CPU.

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   Joakim