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On Monday 01 October 2007 09:40:05 am Stephen Adler wrote:
> What motherboard/chip set are you using?
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Product Name: D975XBX2
> 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?
I'd have to emphatically say hell no.
> 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.
The sweet spot right now seems to be the Q6600 or so, which is a 2.4GHz
quad-core for somewhere around $300 as well (yep, $278 @ newegg). I'd
probably go with that.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017
> 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.
