Reply With QuoteQuestion: Anything wrong with choosing an APU instead of a discrete CPU and GPU? To be exact, the AMD A10-7850k, which is a 4x3.7GHz processor that comes with an AMD R7 graphics unit. I'm on a budget and this looks like a good bang-for-buck.
in 2000 that was a xenon workstation that priced out at about 10 to 15 thousand $$$I mean no blasphemy, but the moment you power up a PC with 32GB RAM for the first time is how I imagine the second coming of Christ, with angelic choir and all.
your normal midrange desktop will do , or a laptop .However desktop and laptops are DESIGNED!!!!! for two very different uses
and battery life and graphics do not mix well
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Question: Anything wrong with choosing an APU instead of a discrete CPU and GPU? To be exact, the AMD A10-7850k, which is a 4x3.7GHz processor that comes with an AMD R7 graphics unit. I'm on a budget and this looks like a good bang-for-buck.
I've got an A6-7400K with 8GB of RAM and, although I'm hardly pulling up trees on the mapping front (thomrey would be happy if I did though) I feel that it runs fairly comfortably in GIMP. There's a noticeable lag in Krita though. I haven't really spent much time getting to learn that one anyway.
It's amazing when things take a couple of minutes they're slow! I remember running AutoCAD on a 8086 machine and waiting 30 minutes or more for it to do a wireframe drawing. One of my academic contacts in a statistics working group I used to be a member of told me tales about sending punchcards to the computing department at the university where he did his PhD and having to wait 3 weeks to get the results - if he was lucky. If there was a single error he'd have to start over. Now that is one long cup of coffee!
That's reassuring then, since the A10 packs a little more punch than the A6 and GIMP is pretty much the only app I'm using.
Just be certain to pack in as much RAM as you can afford.
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on this PC. I don't know if that's a factor as well.
I went with 16GB of 2133MHz RAM and will be running Lubuntu 16.10.
Minor thread hijack: It surprises me how many Guild members use Linux. It's only supposed to be something like 2% of the population as a whole, but I feel that, among the regular posters here, there are quite a number of Linux users. It probably helps that Gimp & Inkscape, for example, are developed natively for Linux and you probably get the best experience if you use a Linux distro. Plus you aren't wasting CPU cycles running the bloatware that comes with an average Windows installation (though, of course, I accept that it can be improved with some tweaking).
Anyway, just an interesting side observation. Carry on!
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There are? Oh, that's great. I'm a proud linux user for over 10 years. Was always an Ubuntu fanboy until they came up with that god awful Unity interface. Since then I've used Xubuntu (xfce), but now I'm going Lubuntu (lxde) which is even less resource-hungry, so anyone with older hardware and a heart for Linux should check it out.
Ha, I'm not a fan of Unity either, though I like Ubuntu. I've been using Ubuntu Mate recently, and before that I was using the Gnome Fallback/Flashback/Classic mode (they kept changing the name and I can't keep up with what it's called. Basically, it's the Gnome 2 interface). I think Unity is quite pretty, but there were so many things that niggled me, and Gnome 3 isn't much better. I mean, seriously, why do we have to have those stupid floating scroll bars? What the hell's wrong with regular old scrollbars? Things like this drive me nuts! Mostly, so long as it's not hideously ugly, I'll take speed over looks ever time. Although...... I have to profess to undying love for wobbly windows!! I can't do without them.
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"
Have you considered Mint+Cinnamon? I quite like the interface and it's familiar to the Gnome 2.4 crowd with the Gnome 3.x features minus the radical paradigm shift. Granted, I have not upgraded in 3 years or so and have not kept up with the details, but the last I saw, the Gnome team was backing off some of their more controversial changes.Originally Posted by Rongar
There are? Oh, that's great. I'm a proud linux user for over 10 years. Was always an Ubuntu fanboy until they came up with that god awful Unity interface. Since then I've used Xubuntu (xfce), but now I'm going Lubuntu (lxde) which is even less resource-hungry, so anyone with older hardware and a heart for Linux should check it out.
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