[linux-audio-user] I was wrong (amd64)

[aljordan at maine.rr.com]

Just as an FYI...

I just matched an AMD 64 3500+ on an Abit AV8.  I was originally planning to run the 64 bit release of Fedora Core 3 but found compiling music apps to be painful on the 64 bit platform.  

Instead I am running the 32 bit release of Planet CCRMA Fedora Core 3 with their Edge kernel.  Everything is singing beautifully with no problems in stability.  As far as I can tell, the motherboard is fully supported with the stock FC3 release although I haven't tried SATA drives.

Alan

----- Original Message -----
From: Noah Roberts <roberts.noah at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2005 6:29 pm
Subject: [linux-audio-user] I was wrong (amd64)

> I was just looking at prices of the XP vs. 64 and for a 3000+ the cost
> difference is only $15 now.  Of course, that doesn't take into account
> the cost of the MB but I wouldn't expect that to be a whole lot extra
> either.  Even running in 32 bit mode the 64 is probably worth the
> extra few $ since you do get some goodies with it even in 32 bit mode.
>