Dual Core / Dual Processor AMD

[ruscook]

I'm 1/2way through setting up my new dual core system and it flies!!!
I'm vERY impressed with this. VMware feels damn close to native speed
AND you can do things in the host OS because of the multiple cores. I've
got a few troubles with ings like GEDIT etc. but I think that's due to
the new installation not particularly the dual-core.

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 08:35 +1000, Peter Clutton wrote:

> 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!!
> 

Kind Regards Russell
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