Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Do you have any experience of AMD64 in 32bit mode? Do you still get all > the instruction set goodness? I've been considering one of these when I > get round to upgrading my studio machine, and clearly 32bit mode will be > less memory bound, so faster in general, but I'm not sure if you loose any > of the other benefits. I recently got a new AMD64 3000+ (90nm) machine, which I am running (so far) in 32bit mode. Not a lot of mileage on it yet. But, it runs fast and is much quieter than my older 1800+ XP system. I like it. :-) I'll probably experiment some with 64bit mode later on, mainly for software developement and testing. It's only got 1GB of main memory right now, so I see no compelling need for bigger pointers. -- joq
