[PlanetCCRMA] AMD vs INTEL

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com
Mon Feb 6 11:55:02 2006


On 2/6/06, John Dey <jsdey@optonline.net> wrote:
> Roy,
> AMD has worked well for me.  I have a AMD 64 and would recommend
> AGAINST that architecture if you want a low latency kernel.  I have
> several AMD x86 and have used FC3 planet CCRMA and have had great
> support but none of my problems have been due to AMD.

X86_64 plays catchup somewhat with the bleeding edge kernel patches.
But thats okay, you can run a regular i686 kernel on an AMD64 box, it
works great.

Down the road, you can switch to a full x86_64 distro once the patches
have caught up.