It doesn't Ken, I was just explaing to Rod that his current cpu was capable of running a 64 bit OS (he had previously stated that it was a 32bit chip).
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Ken Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Huh, > > > > What does whether the CPU is 64bit or not have to do with anything? > > > > Cheers > > Ken > > > > *From:* Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Thursday, 24 April 2008 6:43 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: 64Bit Vista on laptop? > > > > Rod I think you are absolutely right, all your apps will perform better > with the Intel vs the Amd. The new Intel if it is a Centrino is a 64 bit > processor. > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Rod Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, my recent movement from an AMD to an Intel laptop, and both apps (just > two examples -- there are more) performing 100% better, has nothing to do > with the processor? Same specs, hardware, OS (32-bit for the new laptop > versus x64 for the old laptop, though), apps, etc., yet different processor > manufacturer. > > I'm not necessarily looking for an answer, I'm just happy with my current > computing environment, sans AMD. I was actually astonished in the amount > of > improvement, and probably won't go the AMD route again. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:26 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: 64Bit Vista on laptop? > > As mentioned, neither Office nor Zune (nor any other user mode application) > should know anything about the CPU it's running on (as the kernel handles > all CPU interaction). Secondly, I doubt either of these two apps is > particularly CPU intensive (they should be waiting for other things to > happen - like keyboard input). If you are seeing some kind of "slowness" > (e.g. screen refresh) then I suspect that something else is at fault. > > And lastly, both ourselves and Sun have been running a bunch of intensive > benchmarks on this Sun gear (both 16 core Intel boxes and 16 core AMD > boxes) > for various Microsoft workloads (SQL, Exchange, CRM etc), and the AMD > boxes, > currently, scale much better as you add more CPU cores than the Intel > boxes. > The Sun engineers tell us this is due to the Intel CPUs being bottlenecked > on the memory transport and this will be fixed when Intel moves to on-die > memory controllers with the Nehalem CPUs that are coming out later this > year. We haven't seen any "app compat" issues running any of these > workloads > (or even Hyper-V, which would surely expose such issues as it actually runs > in privileged mode) > > Cheers > Ken > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rod Trent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, 24 April 2008 6:11 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: 64Bit Vista on laptop? > > > > Those apps were just examples (based on the Subject line). > > > > The instruction set of the CPU plays into it, too, though. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:08 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: 64Bit Vista on laptop? > > > > Um - there should be no difference whatsoever. Neither Office nor Zune > > knows > > anything about what the CPU is doing. That is all handled by the > > kernel. > > > > Also, I doubt that either Office or Zune software would be run on a 16 > > core > > or 32 core server. > > > > Cheers > > Ken > > > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
