Best budget CPU under £40

GunJack

londonTiger wrote: »

Is that powerful? I'm so out of the loop with amd. Also it doesn't support vt-x

as above, it benchmarks quite well, comparable with some of the earlier i3/i5 intels. For a cheap all-rounder it's perfectly respectable performance, beats most of the Core2Duo intels and a lot of the newer lower-powered CPUs.

pappa_golf

londonTiger wrote: »

Is that powerful? I'm so out of the loop with amd. Also it doesn't support vt-x

no its slow and pathetic and not worth the money , you would get more power by using a Amstrad pc1512.




but in my case for some reason the little CPU in a £25 motherboard runs windows 10 and other programmes a lot quicker than a sample of £200 ebuyer specials




if I needed a CPU that supported VT-X , I would have bought one

londonTiger

pappa_golf wrote: »

no its slow and pathetic and not worth the money , you would get more power by using a Amstrad pc1512.




but in my case for some reason the little CPU in a £25 motherboard runs windows 10 and other programmes a lot quicker than a sample of £200 ebuyer specials




if I needed a CPU that supported VT-X , I would have bought one

windows 10 doesn't need a powerful cpu. It's been designed with low powered tablets in mind. To run windows 10, SSD is important as it caches data like crazy.

pappa_golf

see post 2 , already in use.


and as you comment "windows 10 doesn't need a powerful cpu" correct!!!
and a board+cpu+4g memory at less than £80 runs well.


if you insist on a CPU that has vt-x , then look elsewhere

esuhl

londonTiger wrote: »

Samsung EVO series of SSD is very cheap and decent quality as well. It has cheaper type of memory than the pro series but it wont depreciate in the next 10 years by then the sata technology and storage capacity of the drive is likely to be redundant and due an upgrade anyway.,

Those Samsung SSDs have been plagued by buggy firmware. The Linux kernel has had to blacklist synchronous TRIM on them as it causes data loss, and apparently there have been speed issues with the drives too.

Fightsback

esuhl wrote: »

Those Samsung SSDs have been plagued by buggy firmware. The Linux kernel has had to blacklist synchronous TRIM on them as it causes data loss, and apparently there have been speed issues with the drives too.

That was actually a Kernel bug and not due to the Samsung SSD, update your Kernel:

http://techreport.com/news/28674/samsung-says-data-eating-trim-bug-is-a-linux-kernel-problem

Kernel patch here:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg49440.html

esuhl

Fightsback wrote: »

That was actually a Kernel bug and not due to the Samsung SSD, update your Kernel:

http://techreport.com/news/28674/samsung-says-data-eating-trim-bug-is-a-linux-kernel-problem

Kernel patch here:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg49440.html

I'd seen that article, but my interpretation was that Samsung's suspicious that it was a kernel problem turned out not being correct. But I'm still not entirely sure what happened. :-/

The blog the top link refers to a blog which says, in conclusion:

The system was issuing a TRIM to erase empty blocks, the command got misinterpreted by the drive and the controller erased blocks it was not supposed to. Therefore our files ended-up with 512 bytes of zeroes, files smaller than 512 bytes were completely zeroed. When we were lucky enough, the misbehaving TRIM hit the super-block of the filesystem and caused a corruption. ...
As a result, we informed our server provider about the affected SSDs and they informed the manufacturer. Our new deployments were switched to different SSD drives and we don’t recommend anyone to use any SSD that is anyhow mentioned in a bad way by the Linux kernel.

If I've managed to find the kernel code correctly, it looks like those drives (and quite a few others) are still blacklisted.

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/ata/libata-core.c#n4220

Fightsback

esuhl wrote: »

If I've managed to find the kernel code correctly, it looks like those drives (and quite a few others) are still blacklisted.

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/ata/libata-core.c#n4220

for info:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/ata/libata-core.c?id=9a9324d3969678d44b330e1230ad2c8ae67acf81

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f3f5da624e0a891c34d8cd513c57f1d9b0c7dadc

Probably playing it safe until fully tested.

pappa_golf

now gone up , http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00IOMFAQ0?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailp age_o03_s00