Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 09:26:07 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Best processor for multimedia? Message-ID: <20050708142607.GH11668@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20050708053845.GL19707@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050708053845.GL19707@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:08:45PM +0930 I heard the voice of Greg 'groggy' Lehey, and lo! it spake thus: > > - Athlon 64 > > From previous mail on this list, it seems that Athlon 64 is probably > not the best choice for reasons of compatibility. .From what I've seen, most of the problems have to do with the architecture of the system (amd64-vs-i386), not the processor itself. And it seems like the amd64 chips, running in i386 mode, are faster than most i386 chips. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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