[wellylug] Mandrake for Athlon64

[Ian Beardslee]

bugger, need to wipe the drool off my keyboard again ... :-)


-----Original Message-----
From: Wood Brent <pcreso at pcreso.com>
To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 02:12:52 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [wellylug] Mandrake for Athlon64

> box, a 10K RPM SATA drive should make quite a difference, tho the full
> 2Gb RAM I want to install should help minimise disk reads.
> 
> 
> > Yours is the first PC I have seen spec'ed at 1GB memory
> 
> I have 1Gb in my current Shuttle. 1.5Gb in my desktop & have been
> involved with
> a couple of 2Gb graphics workstations. Up to 4Gb in some 64 bit RISC
> servers. 
> One can get blase about it :-)
> 
> 
> I'm looking to use a single 1Gb module to leave room for the other one
> later
> :-) Given the single channel 64bit bus in the nForce 150 vs the dual
> nForce2
> chipset, I don't need to install memory in matched pairs.
> 
> At $400 odd for a 1Gb DDR400 module, I think AMD's 64 bit cpu will
> create some
> large memory boxes at pretty cheap prices, causing some chagrin at
> Intel. And
> possibly Microsoft if they can't support it soon.
> 
> Some benchmarks I've heard about suggest Postgres SCREAMS in full 64
> bit mode,
> & I wanna find out :-) I have a spatial analysis I need to do for work
> (which
> I'm using Postgres for), & want to run it on a dual Xeon there &
> compare with
> the A64.
>