[Pc_Support] Hardware recommendations.

[Damien McKenna]

> Homer-de-Hacker wrote:  
> > In re the 64 bit cpu, my personal advice is don't.  I
> > have had an amd64  bit machine for 6 or more months now
> > and the 64 bit stuff stinks.
> 
> Hate to cross you Homer, but I think your issues have more to
> do with chipset (possibly distribution) than AMD64.

Yeah, that one was pretty well covered in a leaplist thread last week or
so.

> I've been running with AMD64 on my personal workstation and
> build system for work (I tote it back'n forth) with Fedora Core
> 3/x86-64, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and CentOS) 3 and
> 4/x86-46 with _no_ issues except manually re-packaging
> Firefox and associated bins, libs, plug-ins for it.

I've got Ubuntu/64 running on my home Athlon64 (nForce4 mobo) just fine.
Took a little tweaking because I've got an ATI card, but its fine now.

> I can't believe how fast I can install software from CD/DVD now
> that the CD/DVD (ATA) and HD (SATA) drives are on different
> PCI busses.

That's probably one of my problems at home, 8x speed DVD-R burning often
fails using Nero on our GSA4163 (Maxtor 160gb IDE HD) while the
P4/1.8ghz POCompaqS works fine every time... Confuses the heck out of
me.  I'm looking to get an SATA drive soon, hopefully it should boost
performance in this regard.

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