AMD Dual Core CPU's

[ulrich steffens]

Am Sonntag, den 29.01.2006, 21:24 -0800 schrieb Ed Fletcher:
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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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> 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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> Thanks,
> Ed

hi,
as i'm also in the process of upgrading, i came across this article at
tomshardware.com [1], which is a nice read if you consider an amd X2. 
i dont know about the prices in the us, but in germany you can get the
X2 3800 for 10 euros more then the single cpu 3800. and looking at the
testresults, the X2 3800 doesnt perform that bad.

[1] http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/08/01/dual/

regards

ulrich