Chuck> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:39:07AM -0500, John Stoffel wrote:
And of course I'm not totally sold on AMD, but I would like to support them since I like 64bit CPUs and the lack of hassle going over 4Gb of RAM, since I suspect that will be how I upgrade this system in the future, instead of getting more CPUs, etc.
Chuck> Most new Intel chips support x86_64 and hence don't have a Chuck> hassle going over 4GB RAM. Yup, I realize that. And it is a factor, since I could even decide to go with a board with builtin Intel graphics and be able to go completely open source with decent performance. Considering that I'm on a Dual PIII 550Mhz, 2gb RAM, Matrox G450 AGP, anything would be an improvement. *grin* I'm not going to purchase now, I'll probably wait until after Xmas for sales and such, but I am keeping my eyes open. John