From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 30 18:04:49 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A2CEE6F for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 18:04:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from MGASS@csbsju.edu) Received: from smtp1.computing.csbsju.edu (smtp1.computing.csbsju.edu [152.65.184.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E66C1A54 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 18:04:48 +0000 (UTC) X-AuditID: ac10425b-b7f9f6d000001813-f4-51a794bad14f Received: from Mail-HTCAS1.ad.csbsju.edu (Unknown_Domain [172.16.66.43]) by smtp1.computing.csbsju.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id DF.5F.06163.AB497A15; Thu, 30 May 2013 13:04:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nx.csbsju.edu (172.16.66.48) by MAIL-HTCAS1.ad.csbsju.edu (172.16.66.43) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.123.3; Thu, 30 May 2013 13:04:42 -0500 Received: by nx.csbsju.edu (Postfix, from userid 1401) id 4206E1807C8; Thu, 30 May 2013 13:04:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 13:04:42 -0500 From: Michael Gass To: Subject: Should I move to amd64 ? Message-ID: <20130530180442.GB7711@csbsju.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA11TfUwbdRjm13Z4dPzkepTy0oFKlT/cB67ETJIZP2NmNEtoNIuy4XalR1vp l70WqUbDNoyj2bQOhghOmQzYJq6OMEC3DCy4FiI6CYIVxESJcwuKK9SgU/Du2sKxfy5vnud9 n+f9+B0hpX5LURNmm4tx2miLJlku6yAf27Tl87p23dbjC/cWXot2yh5BTzZEPpQVoWL5gwbG Yq5gnPc9tE9u+uY7X7JjQFbZEA6iKtQh9aIUAsj7YfjQ77JYrIIr0/5kLyIIivwaQU+aF8m5 sBVBzc+/JPM5FGmD4d5+CR/LyDw4EG1DfJzMxW9++ZagoyTvhqXxbwX9dDIXwl2XbuNjTObD 1c6DklisgKH3ZoR8KbkZmi9EBF8puQHalwgeziDvgbqh7rhtDtT7pqQ+lNYoqm4UVTeuVjcj 6RmkZq0uhza/1G51uF1mmzG/lNWzL7rzGYO7E8X2trsXfTCvDSCSQJpUbNK366h1dAXrsQZQ OSHRqPGxoSYdla63GzwmmjXtZd16q5llzXabJgM3e7n021c4p9vCsBolnq3lYLwC692Wcs0d uOZsq47KFAmxDnOp2e5m97qdlgACQsqVth7mSw205xXGaY8JBtAGQqbJxBPVs0UUaaRdTDnD OBhngn2ZIDQ5GCUlJVEqJ2NkKsvMFu5piDsFPMa3pBDTsWYzcQXLMaSYEfrNxTeX23SUeq3i 2pYlREoAGYlUTVbMnmIdtJU1G8XWSnxF2EaCitmm4wIeTU2ggmUO3uHnVqRaVRHbDaOX1Nn4 NT4jg88wuW1rp1Rn4tO8KCliBTe1Cl/VckSaiOAN1XfhkU85uaw1cmLP66hOwr0LwHX8I1Bw v9wt06Xjk8IccSY2HIW38eD6OCjMlo0dQucrEmKbgrOIQOSSBEI3muTgb/kbw+BlnxKOzgVV 8G/7rBZCDT0PQN+RxUIIjbZsh9DR6UehdqLvcbh25senYLG/TwfLX1Tvgn/mBp+Dmsip52H+ 5ugeiJ6c3AfhH9oM8NnIXwxED3UbYXyyygk3znV5IND8xuuwvD/qQ3AhUluLYOqdHu7rCx5p QtB32vs+gpngpeMccjjIfSONXS0Ilr7/tQVd564uWb26i751L0o8s124epxKXL2IX0JqAo1f fWfs6isq4tWoq5DEOLBnx9hPJQv7v8obP98Unnj4svJZKku2e36Tcctkb2cZeW7hxJ8fbSzb GVZai72FpwaKu/1v53UMXvQo+qn6oV3OkTGWOfFuyWIDfefEC5uzI6Hc0XWTYweyyz6uH8iZ 8W8tUayvDDyz+LTnE7r6VbjoKHqix7Ptvz/mCg5OLZ+f1shYE63dKHWy9P/INpTlewUAAA== X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 18:04:49 -0000 I am currently using a 9.1-RELEASE with an i386 install. The hardware is a core 2 duo with 2 GB of RAM. My video card is an ati radeon hd 2400 xt. Things work fine. Would I gain anything by starting over and doing an AMD64 install or would that be a bad idea? Would my system perform better, worse, or the same after the change? I may eventually bring the memory up to 4GB, but not anytime soon. I understand some ports my not work - like WINE - but I do not use WINE. Would there be other problems? -- Michael Gass mgass@csbsju.edu