What if I Upgrade the CPU?

[Dave1024]

I have been given a core 2 Intel E7650 processor and my motherboard will work this processor.

I am using Kubuntu 7.1 now but it uses a single core Pentium.

If I swap in the new processor what will I need to do to get the current installation and programs to work? Maybe it would be easier to do a new installation of everything. I just don't know how to address this type of upgrade.

[SheeEttin]

Re: What if I Upgrade the CPU?

Most things probably won't notice the difference.
Some custom-compiled things may need to be recompiled, but I think if you have any custom compilations, you can handle that.

[Dave1024]

Re: What if I Upgrade the CPU?

I haven't done anything unique with my setup. Just installed and added some standard programs. I used envy to install the Nvidia drivers and that worked fine.

Thanks

[dibl]

Re: What if I Upgrade the CPU?

Open a console and run

uname -a

If the term "SMP" appears in your output, which I would expect, then that means it will happily run on 2 cores.