On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 23:51 +0800, Steve Underwood wrote: > Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Amadeus W. M. wrote: > > > >> Just wondering what are people's experiences on dual core AMD64. Is this > >> architecture fully supported by fc4? Is fc4 stable on this architecture? > >> Is fc4 optimized for amd64 x2? > > > > > > dual cores looks like two cpu's. To the extent that multicpu > > amd64/opterons are well supported by fc4 so are the dual cores. My > > only dual core box is a dual processor dual core built on a tyan k8sd > > pro which works fine as far as I'm concerned... > > > >> I looked up the recommended motherboards at the AMD web site and all > >> but a > >> few had an Nvidia chipset (the others VIA). Do I have to worry about > >> drivers? Do I have to download drivers from Nvidia the way we do for the > >> Nvidia video cards each time we upgrade the kernel? Which chipset is > >> natively supported by fc4? > > > > > > All the chipset integrated pieces in the via chipset boards are well > > supported. I have no personal experience with the nforce-4 ultra, > > there are people in here who've used it. > > I use an Asus A8N-E board with the nForce-4 Ultra chip set and an X2 > 4200+. It works very well, except for one BIOS related quirk. It doesn't > detect my IDE drive at startup. After a press of the reset everything is > fine. I believe SATA drives work without a hitch. > > Regards, > Steve > I just built my new computer about a month ago and it is running fine. I had no trouble installing FC4 on it. The only problem I had was that yum died during the update and I had to remove all the double packages by hand. Just remember there is no java and flash for 64-bit versions of browsers yet so if you need it just install the 32-bit version of firefox, java, and flash's plugin. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Asus A8N-SLI Premium BFG Tech Geforce 6600GT Corsair XMS 1GB DDR 2 Sata drives Fedora Core 4 64-bit Rey Cruz
