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Hi -
I just got a board with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 cpu. I was wondering - 

1) Is the amd64 8.0 release the fbsd of choice here?

and

2) Does it take advantage of the athlon's dual cores?

Thanks,

IHN,
Gene

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