Re: [LAU] CPU and mobo

On Sat, 19 Dec 2015, Ralf Mardorf wrote: That chip is up gradable to an i5 quad core or i7 dualcore with HT(pick the quadcore and watch for i5s with dual core and HT or i3 with are dual core HT) So good upgrade paths would be either a pentium quadcore of i5 quadcore (for audio). http://ark.intel.com/products/80800/Intel-Celeron-Processor-G1840-2M-Cache-… The above page does not show crt frequencies. Most of us have moved to flat screens, I guess. At less than $100 CD, two is normal, but right now you want to use as much of what you have as you can. Again the manufacture's web page: (for those who can't read german) http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4567#ov and manual: download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_ga-b85m-d3h_e.pdf No, but page 27 of the user manual, see "CSM Support", "Boot Mode Selection", "Storage Boot Option Control" and "Other PCI Device ROM Priority". The legacy modes should boot your present drive. There also look to be a number of "performance" and "power saving" features you may wish to turn off :) The CPU and the board both seem to handle up to 3 displays (most do). Any one else have one? The CPU should be fine, it looks about like what my son has (running Kubuntu). I can't help with ram I just picked "some" (8G) and put it in. Two matched are supposed to be faster as the access can be interleaved, but I just got a single and it has been "fine" (wonderful word). I have 4 terminals, 2 pdf readers, geany, FF with three pages (close to 40 total) of tabs open and ardour running with a 17 track session. My system says I am using 1.6G of 7.5G ram (I guess the 7.5 excludes memory not belonging to my user) There are various other utilities running too. Swap says 0bytes. (the way I like it :) swappiness is 10 by default in UbuntuStudio which seems to work much better than the default 60. All that to say, I think 4G ram would have been enough for most things. -- Len Ovens www.ovenwerks.net