On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 11:12 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 18:44 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 10:17 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > Running dual athlons using the i386 (or 686 depending the package) F9
> > release (this is an x86_64 system), is there some services that need to
> > be enabled for them to be maximized in their use? Things such as
> > cpuspeed and such need to be on? In other words (and not that
> > knowledgeable in this area), can you even tell if it's being used
> > correctly, and if your just doing small things, such as checking email,
> > browsing, those type things, is it used then as well, or more for when
> > doing things like compiling one program, then doing all the other stuff
> > like normal?
> >
> > Hope I worded my question right LOL
> >
> > --
>
> Are you talking about a dual Athlon MP (AMD762MP) or a dual-core
> Athlon64?
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...
Above should be the specs on the machine.
Does that info help clarify what I have and asking?
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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.
Beyond that... well, nothing that I can think of.
- Gilboa
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.