Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64

John Heil
2004-02-24T19:56:39Z

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Rogier Wolff wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:43:54 +0100
> From: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
> To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
> Cc: John Heil <kerndev@sc-software.com>,
> Thomas Zehetbauer <thomasz@hostmaster.org>,
> Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:32:07AM -0500, Timothy Miller wrote:
> > Things may have changed, but when I last built a Linux box (Athlon XP
> > 2800+), I was not able to find a motherboard for recent AMD processors
> > with 64bit/66mhz PCI slots. If I'd needed that, I would have had to go
> > with Intel.
>
> Ehmm. We've been trying to get 64/66 slots in our systems a while, and
> the only affordable option I've been able to find are the dual-athlon
> boards (Tyan, Asus).

And so far, I've found Tyan to be the slightly more reliable of the two.

johnh

>
> We found tons of Intel boards that didn't have them until we figured
> out that the popular Intel chipsets didn't support it....
>
> Roger.
>
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