Re: quad cores?

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Monday 01 October 2007 09:40:05 am Stephen Adler wrote: 
> What motherboard/chip set are you using? 

Base Board Information 
        Manufacturer: Intel Corporation 
        Product Name: D975XBX2 

> I just looked up the pricing of the cpu's at my local PC shop... 
> 
> http://www.tcponline.com/Processor_Intel.htm
> 
> Is the core 2 quad 3GHz at $1.2K worth it? 

I'd have to emphatically say hell no. 

> Or should I get the Core 2 
> Dual 3GHz, 1333Mhz FSB going for $0.3K. my rule of thumb is that most of 
> the bottle necks are in memory bandwidth so its worth putting money into 
> the max memory bandwidth you can get. 

The sweet spot right now seems to be the Q6600 or so, which is a 2.4GHz 
quad-core for somewhere around $300 as well (yep, $278 @ newegg). I'd 
probably go with that. 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017


> Jarod Wilson wrote: 
> > On Monday 01 October 2007 08:46:39 am Matthew Gillen wrote: 
> >> Stephen Adler wrote: 
> >>> Well, with all this VMWaring I've been doing on my desktop, I've come 
> >>> to realize that my 2.8GHz intel D (i.e. old style dual core) just 
> >>> doesn't seem to have the punch that my macbook (solid core 2 duo 
> >>> platform) has. So maybe it's time to upgrade. But as I go out and look 
> >>> around at the latest CPU's, I see that Intel is out with the core 2 
> >>> quad! Any comments on this new processor? Do I have to run fedora core 
> >>> 8 on it or something like that? 
> >> 
> >> You could run Redhat 7.3 SMP on it if you wanted, and it would take 
> >> advantage of all the processors.  (there might be issues with the 64-bit 
> >> or ide-chipset support with a kernel from that long ago, but my point is 
> >> that it's basically using the same SMP basics that linux has supported 
> >> forever). 
> > 
> > Yeah, um, Red Hat Linux 7.3's kernel-smp would most certainly NOT work on 
> > a core 2 quad... However, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5 with their 
> > latest kernels all work, as should Fedora Core 5 and later with their 
> > latest kernels. 
> > 
> > I currently run Fedora 7 on my own core 2 quad desktop here at work, and 
> > previously ran FC6 on it, no problems whatsoever.