Fedora Core 5 + Athlon 64 + Nvidia Motherboard

[Chong Yu Meng]

On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 10:17 -0700, Dominic Lepiane wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, it looks like browser plug-ins and multimedia software have yet to
catch up to the 64-bit platform. I won't be using the system for
multimedia and general purpose use on Linux, however. Just need to run
several server applications on it, so I probably will not even be
installing X Windows, if I can help it (I can't recall how to run Java
in headless mode. Once I figure that out, then no X Windows for me). 

On the Windows XP partition, however, I'll be running Warcraft 3!
 
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Pascal Chong
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