64-bit Processors

[Timothy J. Miller]

Thanks everyone for the info.  To provide some context I am currently
running a PIII 500mhz with @1 gig of memory.  Since the installation of
Fedora I have noticed a decrease (although slightly) in performance and am
thinking of replacing the mb, proc, and memory. I tend to use my machines
for years with out upgrading (probably would still be running an old Pent.
Pro if a power outage hadn't blown it out 5 years ago) and want something
that will last without costing me an arm and a leg.  I would like to go
with a 64 bit arch since I tend to run the machines for so long but don't
want to take the country out of debt in the process. Replacing hardware
is nothing new to me, I recently finished a dual PIII box for a server and
64 bit is not a problem as I have @9 Sun Sparc systems up and running, so
any information, tips, etc... is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
- Tim

On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Timothy J. Miller wrote:
>
> >
> > Question re: the AMD line of Processors, I currently am considering
> > updgrading a machine and am looking at the AMD Processors. Is there a way
> > to tell which are 64bit and which are 32bit?  For example, is the AMD
> > Athlon XP a 64 bit processor or a 32bit?
>
> if it says amd 64 or opteron then it's 64bit... if you're considering a
> move to 64bit amd then you're also considering a motherboard upgrade.
> if you're consdering an athlon xp as a drop-in replacement for another
> athlon xp you need to be mindful that your current motherboard may not
> support a 333mhz or 400mhz fsb cpu core which would practically limit you
> to an athlon xp 2400+ or something similar... That's not a bad cpu by any
> means and they're cheap (~$80 or less).
>
> > Thanks!
> > - Tim
> >
> >
> >
>
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