[geeks] fastest AMD socket 939 and 940 processors

[Joshua Boyd]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 08:52:33AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 08:20:36AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> >    The Intel choices are so fast & cheap, it's hard to go wrong. You can
> >    get a very decent Intel Core 2 Duo CPU w/stock cooler for well under
> >    $100 ($80?), quad Core 2 Duos are well under $200 ($180?)
> 
> Also look at the high-end "Pentium Dual Core" chips, which are actually
> Core 2 Duos (and the VT features disabled, unfortunately - but if you're
> not going to run VMWare it doesn't matter).  

VMWare claims that VT-x isn't always the fastest mode for their software
anyway. I believe VT-x is mainly needed when running 64bit guests.  I
believe that VT-x support is required for KVM to function though.  I
don't know about xvm.