Hi Rob Instead of upgrading to quad, how's about looking at a mobo that takes multiple CPUs and getting a matching pair of dual core instead?
It's not a setup I've had personal experience with, but other people appear to have had success by doing this. E -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob Beard Sent: 14 December 2007 23:17 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Quad core CPU for Ubuntu, is it worth it? Hi folks, I'm looking to upgrade my PC to something a tad quicker. Now I'm interested in going to a Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU (2.4GHz quad core). Thing is, I'm not sure if I would really make use of a quad core CPU (not to mention my other half wants a PC upgrade too and my budget won't stretch to a quad core CPU and an upgrade for her PC too). I don't really play games (although I do use the occasional emulator), but I do want to start doing things like video encoding (I have a pile of DV tapes to convert to DVD) on top of my usual tasks (downloading stuff, running the occasional virtual machine, playing music, browsing the web). So, I was wondering if any of you folks on the list are actually running Ubuntu on a quad core CPU? If so, does it make a real major difference over a dual core CPU? Ta, Rob -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
