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11 years ago

Speed up compiling with new computer, many cores or higer frequency

Hi, I'm about to buy a new computer and would like to know if Quartus II compiler favors core's or frequency of cores? In my price range are: Xeon E5 1650v3 6-Cores 3.5Ghz Xeon E5 2630v3 ...
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11 years ago

Ive never really noticed much difference.

But the Linux machines have usually been servers that can run many jobs simultaneously, with windows machines being stand alone machines.

I have found that the gui appears to run better on windows (but that may have been because Im using a remote X session for linux guis).