AMD Dual Core CPU's

[Greg Madden]

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.

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Greg Madden