Decade old tower PC running Mint - should I upgrade
by jrp13149 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5QD94)
Morning,
I built my system about ten years ago. It has an AMD Phenom II X6 1090T processor with 6 cores, uses a M4A87TD ASUSTek motherboard, and has 16 GB RAM installed. Along with a load of spinning rust. The OS is installed on a newish (~18 month old) SSD.
It's a media streamer in the main, and runs a few other services around the house. Also runs Virtualbox with a Win10 guest OS for when I need it.
I'm toying with upgrading, which I reckon would be a mainboard, CPU and RAM change out. Just wondering if it's worth it. Looking at the logs the CPU doesn't often load all six cores, so I'm not sure more cores will make a big difference. It doesn't look like single cores have got much faster.
Any comments on what performance uplift I might be missing? Faster RAM these days, or bus speeds?
Thanks,
Jeff.
I built my system about ten years ago. It has an AMD Phenom II X6 1090T processor with 6 cores, uses a M4A87TD ASUSTek motherboard, and has 16 GB RAM installed. Along with a load of spinning rust. The OS is installed on a newish (~18 month old) SSD.
It's a media streamer in the main, and runs a few other services around the house. Also runs Virtualbox with a Win10 guest OS for when I need it.
I'm toying with upgrading, which I reckon would be a mainboard, CPU and RAM change out. Just wondering if it's worth it. Looking at the logs the CPU doesn't often load all six cores, so I'm not sure more cores will make a big difference. It doesn't look like single cores have got much faster.
Any comments on what performance uplift I might be missing? Faster RAM these days, or bus speeds?
Thanks,
Jeff.