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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

Advice on buying a new PC (and O/S) primarily to run Quartus and Modelsim - thanks!

Time to update my 7-year old PC as it, and Centos 5.6, are really old :-). My budget is several hundred $, and I'm planning to get a white-box PC and install Centos 7 on it. The machine will b...
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8 years ago

Hello Jeffw_00

In my case (Dell Precision Xeon, 16GB, SSD), processor power is the bottleneck, not the size of the RAM or the speed of the SSD.

I choose i7 over i5 instead of 32 gb over 16gb. But i compile Cyclone IV/V designs that run for about 15 minutes.

My best friend has an i5 (HP), it takes about 30% more time to compile the same design.

Best regards,

Johi.