Simon Wears wrote: > I went down to MicroDirect earlier today, and bought myself a shiny new > Intel Quad Core Q6600, clocking at 2.4Ghz per core. I was so happy to be > finally replacing my 2.6Ghz Celeron (single core), which struggles to > even do 2+2 it seems. I got back into my flat, and replaced the CPU, > only to find out that although my motherboard supported Quad Core CPU's, > it seemed to support every one but the Q6600. Needless to say, I was > very unhappy to have wasted my money. >
Have you checked to see if there is a bios update available? Might be worth having a look if you haven't already. You never know. > Now, I've put it into a MSI P965 Neo board (which hates linux when you > have both SATA and PATA drives plugged in) and it runs incredibly well. > My load average is 0.05, 0.06, 0.03. Big shock for me, I'm used to load > averages of 2.00+ ! Now, I'm going to install Ubuntu Server on this new > machine, and I was wondering what is recommended for this CPU. It's > 64-bit, so should I get the 64 bit server, or the 32 bit server? I seem > to recall reading that the 64 bit desktop is kinda buggy, but the 64 bit > server is fantastic. > How much memory are you running in the server? > Also, is their any significant difference in the 8.04 and 8.10 servers? > I'm more swaying towards the 8.04 Server, since its LTS, but if Intrepid > server is more awesomer then I'll go for that. > > So, long story short: > > 32 bit or 64 bit server, and 8.04 or 8.10? > > Cheers, Simon. > Well if it's over about 3.5GB memory in there it'll have to be 64-bit to be able to make use of it, otherwise I'd say 32-bit unless you have a good reason to go 64-bit. I'm running Ubuntu Intrepid 64-Bit on my desktop and it runs fine. Hardy 64-bit was also fine before that. (My desktop has 4GB memory!). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
