Re: quad cores?

["Stephen Adler" <user=65@nabble.blu.org>]

 What motherboard/chip set are you using? 

I just looked up the pricing of the cpu's at my local PC shop... 

http://www.tcponline.com/Processor_Intel.htm

Is the core 2 quad 3GHz at $1.2K worth it? Or should I get the Core 2 
Dual 3GHz, 1333Mhz FSB going for $0.3K. my rule of thumb is that most of 
the bottle necks are in memory bandwidth so its worth putting money into 
the max memory bandwidth you can get. 

Jarod Wilson wrote: 
> On Monday 01 October 2007 08:46:39 am Matthew Gillen wrote: 
>   
>> Stephen Adler wrote: 
>>     
>>> Well, with all this VMWaring I've been doing on my desktop, I've come to 
>>> realize that my 2.8GHz intel D (i.e. old style dual core) just doesn't 
>>> seem to have the punch that my macbook (solid core 2 duo platform) has. 
>>> So maybe it's time to upgrade. But as I go out and look around at the 
>>> latest CPU's, I see that Intel is out with the core 2 quad! Any comments 
>>> on this new processor? Do I have to run fedora core 8 on it or something 
>>> like that? 
>>>       
>> You could run Redhat 7.3 SMP on it if you wanted, and it would take 
>> advantage of all the processors.  (there might be issues with the 64-bit or 
>> ide-chipset support with a kernel from that long ago, but my point is that 
>> it's basically using the same SMP basics that linux has supported forever). 
>>     
> 
> Yeah, um, Red Hat Linux 7.3's kernel-smp would most certainly NOT work on a 
> core 2 quad... However, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5 with their latest 
> kernels all work, as should Fedora Core 5 and later with their latest 
> kernels. 
> 
> I currently run Fedora 7 on my own core 2 quad desktop here at work, and 
> previously ran FC6 on it, no problems whatsoever. 
> 
>