Greg Brown wrote:
I'm not sure if the Intel Extreme is even for sale yet and in case you
haven't heard about it here is the skinny: it is a dual core
hyperthreading processor. A regular hyperthread processor will be
"seen" by the OS as a dual processor (this based on my scientific
study of how many penguins showed up on the screen at Knoppix boot) so
it would seem logical that this chip would appear as a quad processing
machine to the OS.
So my question is will Linux behave with this processor in place?
Will it see and use all "four" processors?
I think it's time forklift upgrade my P-II home server.
LInks:
The Pentium Extreme
http://www.intel.com/products/processor/pentiumXE/index.htm
The motherboard for the Extreme chip
http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bk/index.htm
Cool stuff (no oxymoron pun intended)
Greg
Not so "Cool" is the extreme heat output of the Intel CPU - 130 Watts.
And after this review, I'd take the AMD Athlon 64 4000+:
http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/11/185212&mode=thread
john mitchell
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