Re: AMD 64 with woody or sarge
According to Tim Kelley,
> On Thursday 16 December 2004 10:38, Nick Miller wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I am wondering what experiences, positive or negative, you all have had
> > running woody or sarge with AMD's line of 754 & 939 64bit processors. I
> > would really like to push my company to replace some of our lower end
> > servers with systems built around these chips.
>
> Well, I think they're great systems, and it's about time, but ...
>
> unless you're running into the limits of 32 bits sytems (like 1GB memory max),
> there isn't a truly compelling argument to running the 64 bit system.
>
> On the other hand, it will be faster than almost any other "pc" processor, and
> they aren't terribly expensive, so ...
Well, the I/O is supposed to be much much better. Except
that the low-end motherboards apparently don't implement it
right. I think specific motherboard experience reports
would be welcome here.
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