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 > > > > > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
