hi,
i'm about to build a new system and obviously it would be nice if
everything worked nicely. my plan is to one of the asus A8V
motherboards, but i've just spent a while reading nvidia forums and it
seems there aren't any amd64 drivers for freebsd, or even any plans to
release them.
i need
On May 4, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Kep Woof wrote:
it seems like a huge waste to run the i386 version on an
amd64 machine, but can anyone comment on the performance difference?
Sure. For the most part, if you don't have more than 4GB of RAM,
there is little point to running in 64-bit mode. A
Kep Woof wrote:
i need to have direct rendering and dual head dvi. in 2006, decent 3d
performance doesn't seem unreasonable, even if it is just to run a
swanky screen saver. i've got an xfx geforce 6800GT sitting around
here that i'd like to use, but it seems this is currently impossible
on
hi,
On 5/4/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't comment on the difference because I didn't bother with amd64 for
the very reasons you mention. But, for me, A8V plus single core AMD
4000 + 6800GT is plain bloody fast. It'll certainly run your screen saver :-)
Runs cool too.
On May 4, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Kep Woof wrote:
Sure. For the most part, if you don't have more than 4GB of RAM,
there is little point to running in 64-bit mode. A more fine-grained
analysis:
I think I get it now.. having seen loads of adverts and hype
(particularly from apple) bigging up
Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you saying that it just means you can address more memory?
No, the CPU registers and the address bus can be wider (not just the
memory bus) with Intel EM64T or AMD64 architectures, and can get more
work done per clock for some tasks, but can
