AMD Dual Core CPU's
R Kimber
rkimber at ntlworld.com
Mon Jan 30 17:12:52 UTC 2006
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:48:01 -0900
Greg Madden <gomadtroll at gci.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 29 January 2006 20:24, Ed Fletcher wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > To keep the comparison fair, I'm looking at the same clock speed and
> > cache size. The price is almost double, but not quite.
> >
> > Probably a Gigabyte board with the Nvidia Nforce4 chipset.
>
> There is a ubuntu amd64 list with lots of good info. Breezy runs
> great on amd64 dual cores, but it all depends on what you use your
> box for as to any gains to be had running dual core. Personally I
> think smp with Linux is a smoother working environment.
Where do I find details of this list? There's nothing on
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/lists
that I can see.
- Richard
--
Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
More information about the ubuntu-users
mailing list