C.P.U. suggestions.

[Chris Wakefield <c_wakefield@shaw.ca>]

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?

Any Suggestions?

Thanks,
Chris W.