gx_saurav said:
It will have for sure. I guess Prakash doesn't know the difference between 2 physical CPUs & a dual core CPU. You need to compile kernel AFAIK to use the dual core functionality or atleast install an optimised kernel. Also, enable hyperthreading.
care to hear what smp is symmetric muti processing.it is there from old days from ibm server time.also all kernels nowadays come with smp enabled in kernel-which means support for dual core/hyper threading.
there are dual-cpus used before c2d came.I have compiled kernel myself several times.there are lot of "modding" which can be done to optimize performance.an example is/was ck
patches from Con Kolivas.
The kernel does offer in processor feature section to make it optimized for c2d,amd or via,cyrix,arm etc.
So the generalized solution for 64-bit users is to use Ubuntu or any distro which is compile for 64-bit performance.
see below page for correct option.
*www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
and also let you know there are many pre-compiled kernels available in debian or ubuntu repositories which u can install via apt after the install.