 Bluefrog wrote:
...I'm only worried about raw speed at the moment for development... |
It obviously depends what kind of development is that, if it's game dev than yes raw speed is very important otherwise, it's not that important. It appears I dind't understood the original post, I though Bluefrog was building a development station and it turns out it's a multi-purpose computer.
Mart wrote:
For serious development you do - a lot of the time you need the power of VS.NET in your apps |
You can run VS.NET on any old PII 450Mhz just fine, beleive me we still have 2 HP development worksations at work with this processor and it runs just fine, you wouldn't notice the difference at all, unless you are compiling something really big, in which case it would finish faster on a faster machine, but most of the time when you are .NETing, the computer is idle, you are typing or reading, even if you run a preview, it won't need that much power, by your logic all good applications were developed on chained mainframes and all the rubish ones on slow machines.
xeerex wrote:
theSCIENTIST wrote:
For development you don't need a super duper machine. |
You gonna do high-end video or graphics development on that? What about compiling software code? Oh wait, you meant HTML or ASP development. I'm sorry... |
High-end video? Graphics? Bluefrog's computer may not even be suitable for this, remember that's a custom build computer, with average mass produced components, for these tasks, you may need to look for proper workstations, ECC memory, workstation motherboard with a proper chipset supporting chipkill and many other high-end features, proper high-end graphics card, this is a graphics workstation, server like technology. He can run photoshop alright, but I want to see him doing non-linear video editing on (just) 1 hour of video, applying layer effects, masks, transitions, run previews, then render, it will most likely fail.
Compiling software? Ok, the faster the processor, the faster the compilation, but that was not the point, generally speaking, a development station does not need to be that fast (like his P4 3.2), it's actually more important good quality components, and the OS truly optimized for development, no fancy visual effects poluting your memory and stealing processing cycles.
Oh wait, you meant HTML or ASP development. I'm sorry. Right, so what the hell do we talk about here in these forums? Is it not, HTML, ASP, .NET, databases, CSS, JS, and all the rest of it?
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