> > Personally, i will be buying a phenom 2 black edition in the not too > distant future. > > Dean >
I'm having Lenny 64-bit running on a ASUS M3N78PRO MOBO - 8 gb ram and the AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 940 Processor It's the fastest system I've worked with :-) and the cost for the mobo, processor and the ram is today approx 552 USD here in Denmark. frodo:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 - 3 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 4 model name : AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 940 Processor stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 3010.141 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 3 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 3 initial apicid : 3 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt bogomips : 6020.46 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate / Dennis