Placid Report post Posted October 6, 2004 This is probably off-topic and a little pointless but i'd thought i'd let the developers know what's what in the world of EL and 64-bit processors. System specification (Laptop): AMD 64 bit, 3GHz Processor, 512 MB Ram, nVidia GeForce4 440Go (mobile GPU) 64Mb Well, it worked fine in windows, complete compatability and nothing wrong whatsoever. I will be trying compatability with linux tonight, so i will keep you all posted. Hope that is some enlightenment into future compatability Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wytter Report post Posted October 6, 2004 bjorn@darkhelmet bjorn $ uname -a Linux darkhelmet 2.6.8.1-ck8 #2 Thu Sep 30 23:16:28 CEST 2004 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux It works fine. Even tried with 32-bit binaries (using the special 32-bit compatibility libraries) and there's no problem what-so-ever (and there shouldn't be either ;-)). When that's said, I did not notice a performance increase when moving from my 2100+@2100MHz AMD AthlonXP in SDL/OpenGL applications, and this is most likely caused by drivers, change of kernel version and the new chipset (VIA K8T800 instead of nForce2 - would be my guess that an nVIDIA GeforceFX 5900 performs better on nForce2 than on the VIA K8T800). All other applications did however get a performance increase ;-) PS: Your laptop is just a 3000+ (PR Rating) - not 3GHz ;-) You can check the real speed by cat /proc/cpuinfo bjorn@darkhelmet bjorn $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 31 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ stepping : 0 cpu MHz : 2310.039 cache size : 512 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 4538.36 TLB size : 1088 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp As you see, mine is slightly overclocked - haven't played that much with it yet though ;-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placid Report post Posted October 6, 2004 Thanks for the info. Also, thanks for the PR Rating comment, i always get confused with PR vs. Intel ratings.... What linux distro are you using? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wytter Report post Posted October 8, 2004 Thanks for the info. Also, thanks for the PR Rating comment, i always get confused with PR vs. Intel ratings.... What linux distro are you using? Intel uses model numbers now as well - it's a confuzzling world. The worst part was that initially you could actually make a formula for calculating the PR rating of the AMD processors from their speed, and well - performance is not always proportional to the speed increase so it didn't make much sense (only to marketing anyways ;-)) I use Gentoo Linux. You should as well - would most likely work ;-). Just remember to modprobe ide-disk and your LAN-card when booting on the LiveCD. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
