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On Thursday 27 July 2006 15.10, Alexander Skwar wrote: |
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> Thierry de Coulon wrote: |
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> > I've got 2 GB and it will (have to) stay so |
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> Okay, so you won't need one of the main features of 64bit machines - |
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> larger addressable space of RAM. |
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> Will you do number crunching with floating point numbers or with |
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> large integers? |
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> If not, then you won't use those advantages either. Somebody correct |
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> me, but if you want to WORK with this machine (ie. not fiddle), I'd |
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> suggest to stay 32bit. Or what advantages would 64bit provide? |
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> Alexander Skwar |
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Thanks, that's more or less what I thought. No the machine is a bit of an |
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"accident" (I bought the wrong CPU for another board and then decided to |
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build a machine to see what "dual core" really brings) so, if I keep it, it |
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will do "Work" and may be also a little "game" :)) |
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The "dual core" seems to give more "bogomips" than my main machine (a dual |
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Opteron, and that one runs a 64 bit OS) but I'd like to see how this |
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translates in everyday life. |
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Thierry |
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