New Machine

[taoh15]

Hi All

I need some help here. I've recently upgraded to Delphi 2005 and my old machine is struggling badly. I am going to build a new machine but I'm not sure of the best CPU to use for Delphi.

There are three possible routes
Pentium 4 hyper- thingy
AMD 64 bit
Pentium M

Which would provide best performance for development.
I'm not bothered about other uses of the machine as my current P4 2Ghz 512mb ram machine is sufficient.

I just want better compilation time. Currently my machine seems to go on strike when rebuilding a BPL with one change in the only unit in it.

Cheers
Niall

 

[Griffyn]

Your Delphi 2005 would need to be the 64-bit version to take advantage of a 64 bit processor. You would also need a 64-bit version of Windows. Pentium M is for notebook computers, as it provides variable speed processing based on available battery life. Hyperthreading only simulates multiple processors and will only provide up to 25% performance if the delphi compile engine using multiple threads. I can't see it making much of a difference though.

 

[Stretchwickster]

Also consider having 1GB of RAM

Clive

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