Re: Dual Athlon cpu

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Mike Chambers <mike(a)miketc.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 19:56 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
>  > On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 11:12 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
>  > >
>  > > Athlon 64 X2 (B) 3600+ 1.9 GHz (65W)
>  > >         2000 MT/s (mega transfers/second)
>  > >         Socket AM2
>  > >
>  > > Dual-Core.
>  > >
>  > >
>
> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01063553&lc=en&a...
>  〈=en
>  > >
>  > > Above should be the specs on the machine.
>  > >
>  > > Does that info help clarify what I have and asking?
>  > >
>  > > --
>  >
>  > In general, things should work more-or-less out of the box.
>  > I'd consider switching to F9/x86_64, especially if you have more than
>  > 2GB of memory.
>  >
>
>  Well, I only have 2G ram, so using 64 won't do me much good anyway.  I
>  guess I am only asking is what services (if any) need to be on to take
>  advantage of the dual core processor(s), as I mostly turn off all
>  services that I don't need after a install and might have turned
>  something off (like cpuspeed, if needed) that might need on to help the
>  system run faster/better.
>
>  > P.S. I've yet to upgrade from F8 and F9 on my machines. But unless
>  > something went wrong between RC2 and F9-release, you should be safe.
>
>  Already running F9 and have since testing actually.  Just trying to
>  clarify what services are needed IF any for cpus to work faster/better.
>
>  P.S. Not having any problems or slowness really on anything, just asking
>  in general is all.
>
>  
As far as I know non of "desktop" services in Fedora (cpuspeed included)
need any type of special configuration when used on dual core CPUs.

- Gilboa