Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:37:58 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Manju Kalita <Manju_Kalita@infosys.com> Cc: "freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org" <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD for Intel(r) Xeon Processor X5560 Message-ID: <4C498D26.70805@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <3328D456F567BB42856F60C58D32F0C30283487140@BLRKECMBX01.ad.infosys.com> References: <3328D456F567BB42856F60C58D32F0C30283487140@BLRKECMBX01.ad.infosys.com>
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on 23/07/2010 04:06 Manju Kalita said the following: > Hi Friends, My Processor is "Intel(r) Xeon(r) Processor X5560 (2.80 GHz, 8MB L3 > Cache, 95W, DDR3-1333, HT, Turbo 2/2/3/3)". Could you please advice which > FreeBSD architecture I should use? amd64 or i386 depending on your full setup. amd64 is typically preferred for 64-bit capable x86 machines. > As per the FreeBSD site, IA64 is still > running on tier 2. Could you please help me out? Have you also learned what is IA64? > What will be the performance if I go for Amd64? Will Amd64 will support > Intel(r) Xeon(r) Processor X5560? AFAICS, this is a normal Intel EMT64 processor, not an Itanium processor, which means that it supports amd64 architecture. -- Andriy Gapon
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