I decided to go for 64bit.

[Ilya Palagin]

Quoting Frank Peng <frank_peng_01-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>:

> Thank you guys enlighten me a lot. Now I decided to go
> for 64bit:
> 
> Tyan 940 motherboard AGP8X
> 3.0 GHz Opteron
> 4GB memory
> ATI X2-256T video card
> 80GB SATA hard drive

But don't forget to make sure your SATA controller has a decent support in Linux
kernel.  Currently I can't achieve stability for SiI3112A Serial ATA in RH
Enterprise.  RedHat helpdesk replied that "official support for SATA controllers
is only limited to ICH5 chipset."  Of course, it doesn't mean that others aren't
supported, but this "half-supported" SiI3112A is a nightmare.

> ....
> 
> The fancy PCI-X ports, not PCI-Express, is useless for
> now. It is said AMD will make PCI-Express main board
> at 2005...
> 


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