Re: [Nolug] 64-bit athlon?

64 bit offers no performance increases for most applications. It simply
allows more memory addresses - nothing more. I would save you money
unless you need the extra address space.

Brett

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:04:06 -0500, "John Tiedeman" <jdtiede@sstar.com>
said:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 01:07:12 -0500
> Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net> wrote:
> > Anyone running this yet? I'm strongly considering putting together a box
> >soon.
> >
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> > Joey Kelly
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> >
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> I've been running one for a couple of weeks--bottom of the line (2800+,
> which is really 1800+ clock speed). Everything seems compatible, but I
> have
> yet to install the 64-bit OS (Fedora Core 2 or 3). It isn't noticeably
> faster than 32-bit Athlon 1800+, if at all. However, it seemed that while
> I
> had a few dollars available I should do it rather than wait until I
> wanted
> to run some 64-bit software without any funding! I'm using an MSI K8T Neo
> m/b and a gig of memory.
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