[PlanetCCRMA] New PC - Athlon 64
D. R. Evans
doc.evans@gmail.com
Sat Dec 3 07:07:01 2005
Jan Depner said the following at 2005-12-02 19:56 :
>My poor old Athlon XP 1700+ is dying from heat prostration so I'm
>planning on asking the ball and chain if I can get a new toy. The one
>that looks most promising to me is a single processor Athlon 64 3700+
>system. Has anyone played much with the Athlon 64's? If so, do I need
>to load the 32 bit version of the OS to keep it working with Planet
>CCRMA or can I load the 64 bit version? I have pretty simple needs here
>- JACK, Ardour, JAMin, LADSPA, Audacity, XMMS, Xine... Any advice would
>be greatly appreciated. TIA.
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Following the advice of others, I have loaded the 32-bit version of FC3
on to the 64-bit system I will be using for audio.
FWIW, I have another machine here that is an Athlon 64X2, on which I am
running Mandriva 2006.0, and I find that quite a few apps are unstable
on it. The 64-bit Audacity that ships with Mandriva 2006.0, for example,
is utterly unusable. I don't know whether this is because it it not
64-bit safe and Mandriva didn't know that, or whether it has threading
bugs that only become obvious when you put the executable on a dual-core
CPU. In any case, the advice to load stock 32-bit FC3 on an audio
machine seems quite wise, even though it's giving up some of the raw
power of the hardware.
Doc Evans