Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:25:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Selecting CPU/architecture for new system? Message-ID: <20060531142230.A91987@chylonia.3miasto.net> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0605310415l7b6ffb09t3845df11207e699d@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060531093224.GA2508@aurora.oekb.co.at> <ef10de9a0605310415l7b6ffb09t3845df11207e699d@mail.gmail.com>
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> > Do you need more then 4GB of RAM, if so then your only option is 64-bit. not true. but it's true if you need over 3GB of VM for single process. > >> o) Is FreeBSD 6.1 considered equally stable under the i386 >> architecture as under any of the 64bit architectures? >> > > Sure, and you can still run i386 FreeBSD on a 64-bit chip. this way it doesn't make sense of buying 64-bit hardware. i use FreeBSD/amd64 (6.0) and it works excellent. > >> o) Anything else to consider in this context? >> > > Code compiling is very fast on AMDs chip thanks to HyperTransport and > the on-die memory controller, if your task can take advantage of this > AMD is your best bet. other tasks get from this adventage too, maybe not that much. lowest end AMD64 machines gets same memory bandwidth that high end P4 machines for 1/10 price :) (and still having lower latency).
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