[CentOS] core 2 duo motherboards and centos 4

> This is valuable information. There goes the trust I had in the shop as 
> well :-( I read some articles also in this list about Core 2 duo, so I 
> want to go for that. I don't care that much about having the cheapest 
> machine available. I just want a machine capable of addressing 8GB of 
> memory.
> 
> I notice that server boards seem to have multiple sockets and use quad 
> core processors. They are capable of handling 16GB easily. I don't need 
> so many horsepower in parallel. Nice for a mail or web server running 
> hundreds of threads. I plan to run 1 or 2 heavy jobs in parallel. And I 
> want the job to be able to acquire >4GB memory if needed. So speed is 
> important, but it's number two on the list. First the memory size needs 
> to be OK.
> 
> Anyone has a good advice?

AMD X2 processors? Proven solid and has no problems addressing 8GB RAM 
with Tyan boards.

Has anyone actually stress tested a Core 2 Duo box and seen how it 
handles it? I know of one instance where a large Korean portal had no 
problems in trials with the Xeon version of the core 2 Duo but hit major 
stability issues when they went live.