amd phenom

[Joseph Loo]

On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 17:40 -0400, max bianco wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Ken Gullaksen
> <ken.gullaksen at communityr.com> wrote:
> > Hi, i'm new to this list.
> > Sorry if this question is out of place for this list, but I'm wondering if
> > anyone has run Fedora with the new AMD Phenom quad core processor, and if
> > so, how this has worked out.
> >
> Welcome to the neighborhood. You will find I think that something
> being out of place rarely keeps people from posting it around here.
> I'm guilty too. That's part of being free I suppose. Quad core huh?
> Lucky bastard(a joking reference between comrades, not an actual
> insult referring to your mother : )
> 
> 
> Max
> 

You have to be careful which phenom you get. If you are using the 9x00
processor, there is a tlb error that can cause some problems with
certain programs. There are some motherboards that has a partial fix to
this problem but there is roughly a 10% penalty.
If you buy the 9x50 series, it suppose to fix the problem.
-- 
Joseph Loo
jloo at acm.org