[Pc_Support] MB/CPU combo for general office use

[Damien McKenna]

> Apparently the board works under Fedora but will it work in 
> Debian AMD64 and Debian 32 bit?

It should do.  I've ran Ubuntu/64 on my nForce4 motherboard and this is
very similar.

> Will it handle any and all DDR memory chips as you indicated in a
> previous message?

Unless I'm mistaken you have to add DDR strips to an Athlon64-based
system with DIMMs the same size, i.e. you can't mix a 512mb and 256mb,
and they must be the same speed, but aside from that you should be able
to use any of them.  Note that I could be wrong on the size-mixing, I do
remember it being an issue at least early on and I've not heard much on
it since then.

> Guess what I am asking is can one expect that most of the newer boards
> to be 64 bit and whatever that implies for the 32 bit world?  I have
> found that most of the apps that I normally use can be utilized on my
> Asus amd64 machine, and they seem to be faster.

Correct, you've still got a darn fast CPU that can run 32bit code really
well.  The difficulty comes with mixing 64bit software with 32bit
software, specifically if you are running a 64bit OS and have to use a
32bit browser because of plugins (Flash comes to mind), and then its
more of a case of it not being as fast as it should be and maybe some
path / symlink problems.  The best bet is to start with a distro that
works close to the way you want out of the box and then update it as
needed, e.g. in the Debian world Ubuntu works really well.

Damien