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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.
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