[ale] Which chip would you select?

[msmith at mikeandmel.com]

I really wish I had the option of one of the VT chips but I already have
these sitting on my desk.  My wife gets one and I get the other. :)

> On 5/15/06, msmith at mikeandmel.com <msmith at mikeandmel.com> wrote:
>> I have each of the below processors but I have to give up one of them.
>> Which would you select?  I've heard that the 805D is a better chip for
>> overclocking but I like the specs on the Pentium 4.  The rest of the
>> specs
>> are similar(both Asus motherboards, ATI video cards, 2 gig of memory,
>> etc)
>>
>> http://indigo.intel.com/compare_cpu/showchart.aspx?mmID=877077,857985&familyID=1&culture=en-US
>>
>> BTW, This will be a development box that will dual boot Fedora and that
>> other OS...
>>
>> Mike
>
> Mike,
>
> I'm really keen on Intel's VT.  I'm not sure if that is relevant to
> you or not, but I suspect a year from now VT is going to be a big
> deal.  A lot of R&D is going on around VT.
> XEN/VMware/Parrallels/Microsoft/Apple all are working on taking
> advantage of this new technology.  I believe that Apple has decided
> that all of the Intel Macs will have VT built in.
>
> Resources I've found to better know wha has VT support:
> http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/proc_info_table.pdf
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/IntelVT
>
> HTH
> Greg
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