Fedora Core 5 + Athlon 64 + Nvidia Motherboard

[Dominic Lepiane]

For performance differences, most of the benefit comes from upgrading  
from a 32b CPU to the AMD64.  The AMD64 apparently will double your  
processing or memory throughput or something like that.  I'm not  
clear how it works but when you run 32b software on an AMD64, you  
already get a big boost.  From looking at benchmarks people have  
posted online, it is unclear whether there is any benefit in running  
a fully 64b environment

The downside is that we know that for sure, there are software  
problems in a 64b environment.  For all the proprietary multimedia  
stuff, good luck finding 64bit binaries or plugins including  
quicktime, wmv, and that kind of crap.  I personally don't really  
have a problem with not running multimedia stuff.  I got flash  
working and the only other thing I haven't got working yet is a Java  
plugin for my web browser (required for visiting Canada Revenue  
Services for income tax stuff etc.).  Otherwise, no videos and such.


On 12-May-06, at 8:27 AM, Net Llama! wrote:

> On Fri, 12 May 2006, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 09:50 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
>>
>>> From what I've read, java performance is *worse* in 64bit  
>>> environments.
>>> Beyond that, 64bit is only beneficial if your apps can both take  
>>> advantage
>>> of the extra address space, and need it.
>>>
>> Thanks Lonni!
>>
>> I've heard the same things, but I thought it may be interesting to  
>> see
>> if there is any truth to it, or if the newer Java releases have fixed
>> those issues.
>>
>>> Specifically which MSI board are you considering?
>>>
>>
>> MSI K8MM-V (Socket 754)
>> (http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/ 
>> pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=647) for my development system. If all goes  
>> well, I may decide to use an AMD64 motherboard for the server I am  
>> planning to deploy in HK.
>
> This isn't an nForce chipset board, its VIA.
>
>
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Dominic Lepiane

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