From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 30 19:22:07 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 634506BB for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 19:22:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pd0-f178.google.com (mail-pd0-f178.google.com [209.85.192.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C8BF3D for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 19:22:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f178.google.com with SMTP id w11so896496pde.9 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 12:22:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=urdVHT4a8QhQddcGYgw+pKBbyG0r52maMp2bda0r1bM=; b=UeYgaPK3QBcAA+JjAG2EDQ3LSBUXeT2ONjEHqJw+VKevxUxjGpIOOxNCssK//AmymO DTV89k5A3NuRL2yi2y1bd+A8Xg14XMVoHGWP9ReQLeGEVEus3j+Ff1Fnpb481GvJpo6B XntErMhglm7RXeQOwTjnmUQOdyP1z15+goFXy3aLuMpjtIPbIs1BiCnO8BGrQTd9EKx6 urDc2xmHVBUwK97vFlpPXx3NdCfEr57uXzeuCBXap9DLPD/0lTeWDwVvWo5+n2y2r5mi RGNnOA7DIHFfKWHcTbbkw0DZ8tyYGqRniyOyHFkwNEcEKhrDfkI88vJ1oo+C16YOm5hh Awpw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.27.147 with SMTP id t19mr9874887pag.207.1369941721190; Thu, 30 May 2013 12:22:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.31.195 with HTTP; Thu, 30 May 2013 12:22:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130530180442.GB7711@csbsju.edu> References: <20130530180442.GB7711@csbsju.edu> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 14:22:01 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Should I move to amd64 ? From: Adam Vande More To: Michael Gass Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: FreeBSD Questions 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 19:22:07 -0000 Given your description, no you should not move. On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Michael Gass wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Adam Vande More