Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:49:12 -0800 (PST) | From | John Heil <> | Subject | Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 |
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:43:54 +0100 > From: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl> > To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com> > Cc: John Heil <kerndev@sc-software.com>, > Thomas Zehetbauer <thomasz@hostmaster.org>, > Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> > Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:32:07AM -0500, Timothy Miller wrote: > > Things may have changed, but when I last built a Linux box (Athlon XP > > 2800+), I was not able to find a motherboard for recent AMD processors > > with 64bit/66mhz PCI slots. If I'd needed that, I would have had to go > > with Intel. > > Ehmm. We've been trying to get 64/66 slots in our systems a while, and > the only affordable option I've been able to find are the dual-athlon > boards (Tyan, Asus).
And so far, I've found Tyan to be the slightly more reliable of the two.
johnh
> > We found tons of Intel boards that didn't have them until we figured > out that the popular Intel chipsets didn't support it.... > > Roger. > > -- > ** R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2600998 ** > *-- BitWizard writes Linux device drivers for any device you may have! --* > **** "Linux is like a wigwam - no windows, no gates, apache inside!" **** >
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