On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:20:25PM -0700, Chris Wakefield wrote: > Greetings all. > > I'm planning to build my next power machine, this time I > may go with a Core Duo, but I looking for some suggestions > and CPU stories from Y'all.... > > To my dissappointment my 'AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 3800' has > been a ho-hum experience; don't know if it's the scheduler > with the default debian compile that seems to effect the > performance, but it's certainly nothing to write home > about. > .....I actually found my original AMD 64 Processor 3200+ > (the one with 1 MiB L2 cache) to be probably the best CPU > I ever had and I think just as capable as my X2. > > So, I'm wondering about the Core Duo family and which is > best for the desktop? > (I've built about 3 machines for clients with these CPU's > and they seem very snappy. I'm even talking about the 1.8 > MHz variety). > > I'm also wondering about alternate CPU's as well and what > suggestions anyone has about those as well?
I use a Core 2 Q6600 in one of my machines. What an amazing amount of processing power for about $200 (for the CPU). I use an Asus P5K board with it. I ahve been very happy with it for running Debian so far. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]