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From: "Josh Carroll" <josh.carroll@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )
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> I just receive a new IBM X3650 server bi-proc XEON and
> I wonder which version of FreeBSD to use with it I386 or AMD64 ?

Do you have more than 4GB of RAM? If not, I'd recommend sticking with
i386. There are very few things that will actually run any faster with
the AMD64 version (notably, media encoding/decoding and anything else
that can take advantage of the 64-bit registers for math operations).

Josh