From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262418AbUBXT4j (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:56:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262422AbUBXT4j (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:56:39 -0500 Received: from 64-52-142-65.client.cypresscom.net ([64.52.142.65]:31154 "EHLO scsoftware.sc-software.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262418AbUBXT4g (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:56:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:49:12 -0800 (PST) From: John Heil To: Rogier Wolff cc: Timothy Miller , Thomas Zehetbauer , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 In-Reply-To: <20040224194354.GA13816@bitwizard.nl> Message-ID: References: <16435.14044.182718.134404@alkaid.it.uu.se> <20040222025957.GA31813@MAIL.13thfloor.at> <1077584461.8414.164.camel@hostmaster.org> <403B5257.2030305@techsource.com> <20040224194354.GA13816@bitwizard.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Rogier Wolff wrote: > Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:43:54 +0100 > From: Rogier Wolff > To: Timothy Miller > Cc: John Heil , > Thomas Zehetbauer , > Kernel Mailing List > 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. > > -- > ** R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2600998 ** > *-- BitWizard writes Linux device drivers for any device you may have! --* > **** "Linux is like a wigwam - no windows, no gates, apache inside!" **** > - ----------------------------------------------------------------- John Heil South Coast Software Custom systems software for UNIX and IBM MVS mainframes 1-714-774-6952 johnhscs@sc-software.com http://www.sc-software.com -----------------------------------------------------------------