Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@email-addr-hidden> writes:
> Do you have any experience of AMD64 in 32bit mode? Do you still get all
> the instruction set goodness? I've been considering one of these when I
> get round to upgrading my studio machine, and clearly 32bit mode will be
> less memory bound, so faster in general, but I'm not sure if you loose any
> of the other benefits.
I recently got a new AMD64 3000+ (90nm) machine, which I am running
(so far) in 32bit mode. Not a lot of mileage on it yet. But, it runs
fast and is much quieter than my older 1800+ XP system. I like it. :-)
I'll probably experiment some with 64bit mode later on, mainly for
software developement and testing. It's only got 1GB of main memory
right now, so I see no compelling need for bigger pointers.
-- joqReceived on Tue Mar 22 20:15:10 2005
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