Matt / Lee thanks for the advice. I had wondered if the age of the system would be it's own stumbling block, and certainly from what you guys have said it probably is.
Oh well, looks like the drop in VAT, and the Xmas sales have come just at the right time for me .... Ian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt Jones Sent: 30 November 2008 20:48 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice I doubt that the current CPU will work in a multi CPU system, the multi processors were the MP versions. The best option would probably be to buy a new board and new processor. You would probably see a jump in performance by updating to either an Athlon X2 system, with socket AM2, or a celeron dual core or pentium dual core. You would have to get new ram, but DDR2 can be picked up for £10 for a gig stick. If you wanted a dual processor system, I have a precision 470 that I bought for £140 a couple of months ago, with 2*2.8 ghz xeons, and a gig of ram. This absolutely flies with 64 bit ubuntu. I wouldn't go for an older model than this, as the older models didn't have DDR2 of PCI express. Probably not the answer that you were looking for, but it may be a significant increase in performance and longegivity. On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Ian Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all Somewhat OT, but I'm hoping someone here can help. My Desktop MB is on the way out, intermittent strange behaviour, and it being some 8 years old and well used, I'm not really that surprised. Now, as I hate wasting money I thought I'd get myself a new MB that would handle the current CPU, AND 1.6 GHz, and memory, but thought about going for a dual socket CPU board instead, and buy another CPU to boost performance. I realise that the make and clock speed of the CPU has to be the same, but does it have to be from the same family of CPU's? The PSU, at 350w, should be more than capable as the only other large power draw, the graphics system, is, by today's standards, fairly medioca, but it suits. I should add that I'm not going to attempt this upgrade, but am going to let the local computer shop that originally built it, do it, but I wanted to do some research first so that I didn't get blinded by the sales pitch, or tech talk. Cheers Ian -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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