What Computer to Buy?

[Troy Williams]

On Thu July 20 2006 11:21 am, ubuntu at rio.vg wrote:
> 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...

I am writing this from Kubuntu Dapper running on a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 
motherboard with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 (dual core) 3800+.  Runs like a champ.

I have built my own boxes for years.  It is not a hard thing to do and it is 
fun.  I also have a brand new (still in box) ECS K8T890-A motherboard that 
supports the dual core Athlon 64, but I have, obviously, not tested it out on 
U/Kubuntu.

Good luck.
-- 
Troy Williams
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