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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

Recommendations for fast PC

Quartus obviously needs some decent PC horsepower and my current PC is taking 20 minutes for a complete compile and fit cycle. I've fitted the maximum 4GB of RAM but I'm not using all of it and the p...
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14 years ago

Most of the compilation process is run on a single CPU-core (if you use the Web-edition the complete compilation process). So the Ideal machine only needs two cores: one at 10Ghz to run the Quartus II processes and the other at 1 GHz or so to do the OS work. A SSD hard drive will speed up the IO operations. And the more memory the less page swaps. A big data cache will help too.