Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:16:00 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> To: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Conroe & Asus P5B. Should I convert? Message-ID: <44EB49E0.9030009@mail.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <44EB48D8.70309@rogers.com> References: <14D2911D-64BE-4625-8F59-BA0EA2B92A10@kfu.com> <44EB48D8.70309@rogers.com>
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Mike Jakubik wrote: > Nicholas Sayer wrote: >> I have a Conroe (E6600) running on an Asus P5B. This motherboard is >> based on the P965 chipset. Right now it's running as an i386. I've >> had to hack a few of the drivers to properly recognize this system, >> but the important parts of it do work correctly. >> >> Since the CPU has EM64T capability, I'm considering switching the >> machine over. > > Why? Are you planning on using more than 4 gigs of memory? The only > difference i can notice in EMT64 mode is that freebsd uses almost > twice as much memory. Better use that time to do some benchmarks, i am > curious how this processor performs on freebsd :) > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" That led us to the question whether a FreeBSD on an AMD64/64Bit system makes sense with less than 4GB, especially on Socket 939 limited boxes ... ohhome | help
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