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Hi João! |
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Seems to be that the bulldozer and FX architecture is from GCC 4.6.3 up |
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fully supported. |
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http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags/AMD#FX-8xxx.2F6xxx.2F4xxx_.28Bulldozer.29 |
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Tamer |
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Am 15.04.2013 16:47, schrieb João Matos: |
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> Great discussion. |
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> I'm in a similar situation. I'm using a core2duo for about 5 years, and |
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> I think it is time to upgrade it. |
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> But, after reading this, there are still to doubts: |
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> 1) r the amd processors really fully supported? When I compile my kernel |
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> (amd64), for instance, while looking for "Processor Type" there are 3 |
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> options for Intel and just one for AMD. Wouldn't it be kinda generic? |
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> 2) durability: I'm kinda traumatized with AMD. Maybe I didn't have luck, |
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> or Brazil is just too hot, but before I change to Intel, I had to buy a |
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> computer a year: mobo problem, socket changed, then replace everything. |
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> I'm very exited with the AMD advantages discussed here, but If it is to |
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> last a year, I'm out. |
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> Back then, when I used amd, I liked the performace and the price very |
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> much. I found out about and came to |
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> Gentoo just when I was looking for a optimized distro to my brand new |
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> athlon64 processor - that lasted a year. |
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> Thank you, |
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> -- |
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> João de Matos |
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> Linux User #461527 |
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> Graduado em Engenharia de Computação |
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> UEFS - Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana |
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