On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Arie Folger wrote: > There was some talk about Mandrake (even in 2.4 kernels) already supporting > SATA and about 2.6 supporting SATA. Anybody has experience with this? Is all > SATA supported or only some chipsets? > > I also wonder whether an AMD64 is worthwhile. Does it really give a serious > performance increase for home/office computing (the most demanding tasks will > be home editing video captured with a firewire device and managing a growing > mp3 collection of lectures I give, with therefore presumably some editing of > those streams). > > Or do you, dear list members, think this is overkill since I am not playing > Quake and not using the machine as an application server? > > Arie Folger >
I am still waiting to test an AMD64, but I tested the Itanium. Regarding the Itanium I can say that the CPU was not really faster than a regular 32bit I had (it was about 1.4Ghz) in number crunching. I think it was actually slower than the 32 when emulating a 32bit (running an exe compiled for 32). Also, the RH gcc compiler (2.96 something) had a bug when passing structs by value (when not all of the elements were of the same size). I intend to get an AMD64 for evaluation, so I will be able to report then. Orna. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
