Dual Core / Dual Processor AMD

[Peter Clutton]

On 10/25/06, Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alfaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/24/06, Peter Clutton <peterclutton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, I'm about to purchase a new workstatioin just for ubuntu and had a
> > question about smp support and benefits. Would appreciate any tips or
> > pointers to other information.

> If you purchase a dual-core processor, you will be able to take
> advantage of both cores even for non-multithreaded applications,
> provided that you run more than one task a time. For example, you can
> rip two MP3 songs at the sime, one running on each core.

> For me, SMP support is extremely stable.

Thanks very much, exactly what i was wondering, I'll definitely be
going  with the dual core.

> But running a  64-bit-enabled kernel and 64-bit applications will
> provide greater performance. For example, 64-bit systems allow
> applications to use more CPU registers

> So, unless you intend to run applications that are totally broken for
> 64-bit, I would go with a 64-bit distribution.
> I'd go with a dual-core system but that's my personal opinion :-)

That's really good to hear. It'll be a new install anyway, so I may as
well give the 64bit a go. Thanks again, great info!!