New MB recommendations

[Tony Alfrey]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> I think it's time to get a faster box 'cause I have some linux CAD apps
>> that want more speed.  Towers are clearly cheaper than laptops.  I have
>> SCSI drives on my present Pentium II box.  Does it make sense to try to
>> get a fancy new fast MB, and attempt to plug in these drives or is this
>> silly?
> 
> Are you sure that your CAD apps are hitting a bottleneck in the CPU/disk 
> rather than the GPU?

I don't know how to determine that.  The vendor of the app says I need 2 
GHz.  I have their old version that runs fine on 400 MHz.  The new 
version is very slow.

> 
> What makes sense is to determine where the bottleneck is,

Any suggestions?

> and addressing 
> it.  Granted, a PII is pretty ancient these days, so almost anything sold 
> in the past year is going to be dramatically more performant.
> 
> Note, that is the SCSI drives are bootable, you'll need the same 
> controller, or a kernel with support for the new controller.
> 

I would try to keep the same controller.
I would try to simply swap out the MB and fire it up.  Will my older 
kernels work on a P4, for example?

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Tony Alfrey
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