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Date:      Fri, 24 Sep 2004 23:32:30 +0200
From:      Lars Tunkrans <lars.tunkrans@bredband.net>
To:        Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd i386 on amd64 hardware?
Message-ID:  <4154926E.7020407@bredband.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040924210947.GC6597@iib.unsam.edu.ar>
References:  <20040924210947.GC6597@iib.unsam.edu.ar>

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Fernan Aguero wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm planning to buy a new box, and would like to move to
> amd64 hardware. 

> My question would thus be:
> 
> is it possible to run 32-bit FreeBSD (4.x) on amd64
> hardware?
> 
I switched from an Athlon-XP 2100+ (1733 Mhz)  to the Athlon64 3800+
(2400 Mhz) on the MSI K8T Neo2 Fir socket939 board 10 days ago.
When running  5.2.1-Release (i386) I find the the time
to complete a seti@home workunit  has dropped from  5+  hours
to 2 hours 55 minutes !!!

  //Lars




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