Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:32:14 -0700 From: Nicholas Sayer <nsayer@kfu.com> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Conroe & Asus P5B. Should I convert? Message-ID: <7370D5CC-12DC-483F-A12A-4C36538775B1@kfu.com> In-Reply-To: <44EB49E0.9030009@mail.uni-mainz.de> References: <14D2911D-64BE-4625-8F59-BA0EA2B92A10@kfu.com> <44EB48D8.70309@rogers.com> <44EB49E0.9030009@mail.uni-mainz.de>
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Mike Jakubik wrote: > Nicholas Sayer wrote: >> I have a Conroe (E6600) running on an Asus P5B. This motherboard >> is based on the P965 chipset. Right now it's running as an i386. >> I've had to hack a few of the drivers to properly recognize this >> system, but the important parts of it do work correctly. >> >> Since the CPU has EM64T capability, I'm considering switching the >> machine over. > > Why? Are you planning on using more than 4 gigs of memory? No. > The only difference i can notice in EMT64 mode is that freebsd uses > almost twice as much memory. Ow. Maybe I'll pass. > Better use that time to do some benchmarks, i am curious how this > processor performs on freebsd :) Well, I can do a buildworld -j2 in about 20 minutes, for what that's worth.
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