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On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 12:47 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > On 10/05/10 09:59, John Williams wrote: > > > > > Well playing WoW on it as I was trying to say is a secondary concern > > (but yes it does support multiple cores), I am more particularly > > interested in which one would be fastest in general use, if there was > > next to nothing between the two, but one was more capable of handling > > WoW, then that clearly would have swung it. But really, I just wanted to > > know if the Semperons higher clock speed would win out against a dual > > core celeron, which would be snappier. > > Since Windows (and Linux for that matter) is capable of supporting > multiple cores (or CPUs) then you'd probably find find the Celeron Dual > Core is faster. You can't directly compare a Sempron and Celeron as > they are two different chips, a better comparison would be a Celeron > 1.9GHz and a Celeron 2.1Ghz for instance. Well I wasn't trying to compare the two directly, I was asking about their general performance. I had expected someone on the list to have some experience with the hardware and be able to say "Machine X is going to be the faster machine given your stated uses." Everything got really hung up on running WoW, which was only a secondary thing. I really know little about hardware, googling got pretty complicated, fairly fast. > > It is going to get some extra ram, its going to remain W7 for the time > > being as I need to spend some time learning it for fixing relatives and > > friends installs. After that, its very highly likely to be Linuxified. > > > > Well I'm leaning to the Samsung so that is probably what I'll go for > > failing any further comments. > > > > I'd certainly recommend sticking some more memory in there, at least > upgrade it to 2GB, if not 3GB (if you're running a 32-Bit OS then there > isn't much point in sticking any more then 3GB in there especially if > it's DDR2 memory). Yes I was inclined to go with 3 or 4gb, likely the 3 due to cost, good point on 32bit OS and addressing it. -- John Williams My linux blog of notes and guides http://subbass.blogspot.com/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html