Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 19:55:42 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Thomas Roberts <freebsd_tester@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Newbie Sempron/ISO question Message-ID: <200702021955.44243.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <270372.75801.qm@web58904.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <270372.75801.qm@web58904.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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--nextPart2133598.qFssjX7HjL Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 02 February 2007 15:46, Thomas Roberts wrote: > While searching through bsdforums.org a poster said > the k8-class CPU is an Athlon64 locked in 32-bit mode > and if anyone has this CPU they should be using the > i386 ISO. I believe you can get 64 bit Semprons but they are AM2 or AM3 only. > Whether I use the i386 or amd64 ISO I will be putting > the CPUTYPE?=3Dk8 in my make.conf file so my question is > "Since I am specifying the CPUTYPE should I stay with > amd64 or start over with i386?" I am not worried > about not having 64-bit capabilities, but I am worried > that using the i386 ISO will not use the CPU to its fulest. I don't think that running it in i386 mode will have a negative impact on=20 performance - possibly the reverse due to cache size. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2133598.qFssjX7HjL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFwwOY5ZPcIHs/zowRAlBNAJ9mDhmKaX3REe1r1eeFPUhIrAtXXQCfVJv2 Ax2mN3toEyoeC99sEJpxThY= =KS2/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2133598.qFssjX7HjL--
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