What Computer to Buy?

[ubuntu at rio.vg]

Kent Borg wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 11:02:49AM -0400, Gregory Piñero wrote:
>> This looks excellent but I can't tell if it supports a dual core
>> processor?  If not can you reccomend an equally good mb that supports
>> that?
> 
> I think not.  I searched for Core Duo processors and came up with
> products that say "Socket 478" but this board says "Socket T (LGA
> 775)".
> 
> It might be getting too far out on the bleeding edge to do dual core
> right now.  I mean, aren't those chips only a few months old?  I bet
> that market becomes easier to navigate in a year.  I would stick with
> a mere Pentium 4 3GHz with an 800 MHz FSB.  And throw a lot of RAM at
> it for good measure.  Fast disks help too.
> 

Core Duo has been on the market for quite a while.  The next generation
Core 2 Duo "Conroe" chips are about to hit the market in the next week
or the week after.  Conroe has gotten an awful lot of people rather
excited.  I've been building machines exclusively with AMD chips for
many years, going back to the first Athlons, and I'm seriously looking
at Conroe for my next set of servers.

However, AMD is cutting the prices on many of its chips in half next
week, so we'll see what shakes out...