Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:11:36 -0400 From: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> To: Nicholas Sayer <nsayer@kfu.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Conroe & Asus P5B. Should I convert? Message-ID: <44EB48D8.70309@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <14D2911D-64BE-4625-8F59-BA0EA2B92A10@kfu.com> References: <14D2911D-64BE-4625-8F59-BA0EA2B92A10@kfu.com>
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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? The only difference i can notice in EMT64 mode is that freebsd uses almost twice as much memory. Better use that time to do some benchmarks, i am curious how this processor performs on freebsd :)
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