Re: performance of dual core processors for .NET

"Phil Wilson" <phil.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

[Using a Dual Core box for Visual Studio]

I've been very happy with my dual-core box running Visual Studio. The build
process on my machine has increased dramatically, as Visual Studio is pretty
smart about doing builds.

The solutions I work in have 40 or so projects in them, and build time is a
real issue.

My workstation was an $800 box from Dell - (Dimension C521). It's a dual
core AMD machine with 4GB of memory running Windows XP Pro x64. For the
price, it's a fantastic machine. The on-board video card is able to drive my
24" LCD (1900x1280), although I think I'm going to go get a dual DVI card
here shortly.

If you were REALLY paranoid about performance, disk I/O is probably the
biggest bottleneck on my system in terms of build time. I've got a low-end
7200 RPM SATA drive (that came with the machine). Upgrading this to a SATA
raid array, or the new 15k RPM Serial SCSI stuff would be.... fast.

--
Chris Mullins, MCSD.NET, MCPD:Enterprise, MVP C#
http://www.coversant.net/blogs/cmullins


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