From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 18 19:56:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E5916A404 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:56:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from msherman77@yahoo.com) Received: from web88307.mail.re4.yahoo.com (web88307.mail.re4.yahoo.com [216.39.53.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F48013C46C for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:56:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from msherman77@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 33114 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Apr 2007 19:30:15 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=Jfj1vhbhQ+lVaJANZoKw0NO1gsg8iQrHUAO83MKy1pNovxgWZ+ltKB9l1KLsl/hiYKjabfe8xd14hJuYeRJo6ITqJdIi6yfXBNvXNg1C2AUce4jS6TAXrhCjciQmXjOca3cKLgE9J3Pom5DuW6XBCa5H0ivbPeeON5+GH6OJRBI=; X-YMail-OSG: mAM.w28VM1kpYakgpUv7Um46puF.K9sw.dIHUj.AGbVucvPeKIqqpCMRd6EK0dHsgTDx93HoVA-- Received: from [204.253.245.126] by web88307.mail.re4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:30:14 EDT Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:30:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael S To: FreeBSD Mailing List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <19889.31715.qm@web88307.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Subject: AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:56:57 -0000 Good day all. I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with the reliable x86 or try the AMD64 port. Any performance penalties when running x86 FreeBSD on a 64-bit machine? Also what are the common problems, i.e. drivers, applications that are known not to work under the AMD64. This is going to be a desktop/workstation type system. Thanks in advance, Michael