Followup to: <[email protected]>
By author: "DK" <[email protected]>
In newsgroup: comp.arch.fpga
>
> could somebody suggest hi-performance workstation I can use to compile my
> designs in a fastest possible way?
>
> I use Altera Quartus III and EP1C12Q240 device. It 90% full with most of the
> memory used. My Athlon XP 1800+ on ASUS A7V266-C motherboard with 512M of
> RAM takes 8/23 minutes to compile/fit. I did try dual Xeon 2200 on TYAN MB
> and it did only 5% faster..
>
> Did somebody try Athlon 64-bit processor?
>

You may want to get more and/or faster memory to begin with.

Both the recent 800 MHz FSB Pentium4's and the Opteron/Athlon64
on-chip memory controllers help in terms of memory bandwidth, too.

-hpa
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