On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +0000, Rob Beard wrote: > I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick > (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the > Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I > could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also > pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now > sitting in my wife's PC).
I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit
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