Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:17:48 -0700 From: "Nerius Landys" <nlandys@gmail.com> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cpu Message-ID: <560f92640803241817t3d1c3218rc7bb71da4ef3afb5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47E84B27.2050708@gmail.com> References: <e63dedd70803241603t45c1b8f1kf28044faf7f820c2@mail.gmail.com> <fs9drp$g6e$1@ger.gmane.org> <560f92640803241709p6ba11f35o95d16fcc4db02d22@mail.gmail.com> <20080325001645.GA34189@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <47E84B27.2050708@gmail.com>
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Well that is helpful thank you. I have 2 GB RAM and am running i386 on my Xeon Dual-Core 3060 Conroe. So this is probably the right thing to do. Thanks. On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 05:09:51PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote: > > > >> I have a computer with this processor: Intel Xeon Dual-Core 3060 Conroe > ( > >> 2.4GHz, 4MB, 1066MHz FSB). > >> I'm running i386. Is this right? I had no idea about this AMD64 > business. > >> I'm confused as to why you run an AMD OS on an Intel CPU. > >> > > > > For similar reasons as why you can run an "Intel OS" (i386) on an AMD > CPU. > > > > AMD64 (aka x86-64) refers to AMD's 64-bit extension to the x86 > architecture. > > Most (all?) of Intel's recent x86 CPUs also implement this extension. > > > > When I first started exploring the issue with my "new" (about 6 months > old now) machine (e6850 3GHz dual core intel w/ 4 GB RAM) the rule of > thumb I learned was if you have <2GB of RAM i386 if more then AMD64. > Sure you can use PAE on i386 but it is really a workaround. Now there > are about 10% of the ports out there that will not run on AMD64 with the > most important "everyday" one being the nvidia driver for xorg (note > though contrary to the man page nv does support the max resolution of > your card/monitor [well almost I ca get 1400x1050 but not 1600x1050 on > my 8400GS and 21" wide screen]). > > > > > > > > > >> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Irodatechnika Hajdu wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi! > >>>> > >>>> I have got a XEON (E5320) based computer. Which version to install? > >>>> > >>> AMD64 or > >>> > >>>> I386? > >>>> > >>> AMD64. > >>> > >>> > >>> > > > > > > > > > >
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