Re: SATA and AMD64 questions

2004-01-08 Thread Ez-Aton
According to PC Magazine tests, and excuse me for not quoting the context (but quoting the idea): Itanium are a bit stronger CPUs, regarding 64bit performances. The are much slower then 32bit CPUs, when emulating 32bit. Athlon64 (Opteron) are much faster then 32bit CPUs, and are rather fast rega

Re: SATA and AMD64 questions

2004-01-08 Thread Orna Agmon
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Arie Folger wrote: > There was some talk about Mandrake (even in 2.4 kernels) already supporting > SATA and about 2.6 supporting SATA. Anybody has experience with this? Is all > SATA supported or only some chipsets? > > I also wonder whether an AMD64 is worthwhile. Does it real

Re: SATA and AMD64 questions

2004-01-08 Thread Alon Weinstein
Arie Folger wrote: There was some talk about Mandrake (even in 2.4 kernels) already supporting SATA and about 2.6 supporting SATA. Anybody has experience with this? Is all SATA supported or only some chipsets? Mandrake had support for some SATA controllers since 9 or 9.1, but it usually involve

SATA and AMD64 questions

2004-01-08 Thread Arie Folger
There was some talk about Mandrake (even in 2.4 kernels) already supporting SATA and about 2.6 supporting SATA. Anybody has experience with this? Is all SATA supported or only some chipsets? I also wonder whether an AMD64 is worthwhile. Does it really give a serious performance increase for hom