Re: C.P.U. suggestions.
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
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