I decided to go for 64bit.

[Adil Kodian]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:02:27 -0400, Andrew Hammond
<ahammond-swQf4SbcV9C7WVzo/KQ3Mw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> Frank Peng wrote:
> | Thank you guys enlighten me a lot. Now I decided to go
> | for 64bit:
> |
> | Tyan 940 motherboard AGP8X
> | 3.0 GHz Opteron
> 
> Wow! Last I checked, the fastest Opterons were the 150/250/850 chips.
> And they're clocked at 2.4GHz. ;)
> 
> http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_8796_9240,00.html
> 
> | 4GB memory
> | ATI X2-256T video card
> | 80GB SATA hard drive
> 
> Dunno what your budget is, but if disk performance matters, you could go
> for a pair of WD 10kRPM Raptor disks and do RAID0 across them. I think
> they're available in 73GB so you'd have 146GB of pretty quick storage
> that way.
> 
> | 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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make sure you *DONT* use the Sil3114 RAID features - if you have 2 sata drives. 

preferrably disable the on-board RAID conntroller and use software
RAID on linux.

the Sil3114 is a nightmare - it works without any kernel compiles only
on FC2, but the data rates that ive gotten on 2 test machines is
terrible.

With two mirrored Disks, the disk to disk data transfer rate i get is
about 8Mbps ! It works ok with striped disks- but then if you ever
dual boot your machine with windows, it cant see the raid - and
complains about drive geometry being incorrect.  If you go ahead and
install windows, then linux wont boot properly !
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