AMD64 X2

[Vulpes Velox]

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 19:53:48 +0800
Jia-Shiun Li <jiashiun at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/2/05, Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:
> > The Asus A8V-E series also does not work.  Asus claims that it's a
> > limitation of the Via K8T890 chipset, which is highly unfortunate
> > since it's otherwise a good motherboard.  Not sure whether to be
> > upset at Asus or Via here, but either way I guess both suck =-)
> 
> That's part of the reason why I did not choose AMD. Although I
> wanted to build an x86-64 capable system and I have absolutely not
> doubt that AMD did a good job, how to choose motherboard was a big
> question to me. Especially being experienced with KT133A and
> VT62x2. So I decided to be chicken and choose (to me) safer Intel
> P4 531 and P5GD1 board.

Playing it safe and not buying hardware with VIA or Sil chipsets
works nicely. :)

> BTW Intel and AMD already decided to let all CPUs support
> x86-64(mostly for marketing purposes), including P4 5x1 series,
> Celeron D 3x1/3x6 series, and Sempron. Intel ones already arrived
> the market. So expect more traffics discussing it. Meanwhile the
> name AMD64 could be misleading to some people who did not really
> understand the differences. ;)