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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Il 03/11/2013 20:04, Mick Sulley ha
scritto:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:52769E47.8060406@sulley.info" type="cite">I am
about to build a new desktop PC. I think the most demanding task
will be DigiKam and I would welcome advice on components.
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I have decided to go with Intel i7 processor, not decided which
model yet. The thing I am struggling with is the graphics card,
they range from very cheap to ridiculously expensive and I really
have no idea how the quality of the graphics card will affect the
performance when running DigiKam. It will be running Debian.
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Hy mick, i suggest to give a look at AMD stuff, both for VGA and
CPU..<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.phoronix.com/">http://www.phoronix.com/</a><br>
Check for cpu benchmark, and remember that some Digikam task are
single threaded (i7 win), but some are multithreaded (AMD Fx Win)...
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I suggest amd due to Intel monopoly, <span id="result_box"
class="short_text" lang="en"><span class="hps">competition</span></span>
is better for all of us ecc ecc...<br>
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The VGA 2d capabilities of a 35€ card are enough for all your need,
and as long as you use a DVI connector you don't have to worry about
image quality, if you use a old VGA connector you need a higher
grade vga card (due to the need of
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital-to-analog_converter#Video">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital-to-analog_converter#Video</a>) <br>
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IF digikam will start to support OpenCl is another story, in this
case the amd vga card wins hand down...<br>
(and you will need a > 150€ card to take advantage of this)<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<b>Roy Bellingan</b>
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