[ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice

[gav]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +0000, Rob Beard wrote:
> I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick  
> (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the  
> Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board).  I  
> could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also  
> pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now  
> sitting in my wife's PC).


I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern
Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop,
this board:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222

Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs
with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig 
machines use.

-- 
Gav Ford
revford at blueyonder.co.uk 
http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk 
I think we need to:  Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit
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