Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 09:06:55 -0800 From: "Josh Carroll" <josh.carroll@gmail.com> To: "Frank Bonnet" <f.bonnet@esiee.fr> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits ) Message-ID: <8cb6106e0612060906o14d784ack6b870a7fc077db03@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45768F34.8020705@esiee.fr> References: <45768F34.8020705@esiee.fr>
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> I just receive a new IBM X3650 server bi-proc XEON and > I wonder which version of FreeBSD to use with it I386 or AMD64 ? Do you have more than 4GB of RAM? If not, I'd recommend sticking with i386. There are very few things that will actually run any faster with the AMD64 version (notably, media encoding/decoding and anything else that can take advantage of the 64-bit registers for math operations). Josh
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