Conroe & Asus P5B. Should I convert?

[Mike Jakubik]

Nicholas Sayer wrote:
> I have a Conroe (E6600) running on an Asus P5B. This motherboard is 
> based on the P965 chipset. Right now it's running as an i386. I've had 
> to hack a few of the drivers to properly recognize this system, but 
> the important parts of it do work correctly.
>
> Since the CPU has EM64T capability, I'm considering switching the 
> machine over.

Why? Are you planning on using more than 4 gigs of memory? The only 
difference i can notice in EMT64 mode is that freebsd uses almost twice 
as much memory. Better use that time to do some benchmarks, i am curious 
how this processor performs on freebsd :)