not a flame, a real question

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I am cobbling up a PC from some parts lying around and a mobo I picked
up. I am trying to decide if I would like to make it my main
workstation (transfer over drives, etc.). A question for the group:
given a 2.66-MHz Intel dual core (Prescott, no HT here) vs. a 2.2 MHz
Athlon 64; same memory speed, video, etc. - which could I expect to
run faster for office applications, some light (amateur) photo
retouching, running Oracle, etc.? I run Gutsy and Gnome/Mac4Lin, if
that matters.

Thanks in advance -

Kind regards,

jh
 
I am cobbling up a PC from some parts lying around and a mobo I picked
up. I am trying to decide if I would like to make it my main
workstation (transfer over drives, etc.). A question for the group:
given a 2.66-MHz Intel dual core (Prescott, no HT here) vs. a 2.2 MHz
Athlon 64; same memory speed, video, etc. - which could I expect to
run faster for office applications, some light (amateur) photo
retouching, running Oracle, etc.? I run Gutsy and Gnome/Mac4Lin, if
that matters.

Thanks in advance -

Kind regards,

jh
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Never mind! Found the Tom's Hardware applet. The Intel (and I was
worng, it's a Conroe) is by far faster on the PCMark 2005 benchmark,
which seemed the most relevant to what I plan to do. Sorry to waste
the group's time...
 
Never mind! Found the Tom's Hardware applet. The Intel (and I was
worng, it's a Conroe) is by far faster on the PCMark 2005 benchmark,
which seemed the most relevant to what I plan to do. Sorry to waste
the group's time...
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Knowing nothing about Linux but wanting to learn I ask you if Linux
supports dual core processors? I thought only Vista (maybe XP) could
utilize dual core processors and therefore Linux would leave one core
unused?
 
Thanks for the answer and link. Would your answer apply to all flavors of
Linux?
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No, while the kernel is agnostic, whoever is doing the distibution
gets to say what they'll support. If the processors are Intel x86,
just about everybody does. Other processors might take a little
searching for a distribution that supports it.

You can do some searching here:

http://www.linux.org/dist/

Bill
 
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