AMD Dual Core CPU's

[Sasha Tsykin]

Ed Fletcher wrote:
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> I'm looking at a new motherboard/cpu combination and I'm looking for
> info on how well the dual core cpu's from AMD work with Ubuntu Breezy.
>  Anyone running one of these?  Is there enough real benefit to having
> a dual core chip, given the extra cost?
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they work fine. Just make sure you use synaptic to install the multi 
threaded kernel. There is definitaly a point, but only if you use a lot 
of applications which will benefit from it, eg. audio or video encoding. 
Otherwise there is not point at all (why spend all the money for a 
slightly faster boot time).
> To keep the comparison fair, I'm looking at the same clock speed and
> cache size.  The price is almost double, but not quite.
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> Probably a Gigabyte board with the Nvidia Nforce4 chipset.
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should be no problems there.
> Thanks,
> Ed
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Sasha