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From: Drew <drew.kay@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit system?
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> As for speed: boy, those new processors (an amd 3800 x2 in my case) are fast...
> as are their 32 bits equivalent.

Considering the 3800+ x2 (ditto here) runs at a real speed of 2GHz vs
the 1.8GHz my old Athlon XPm2500+ did in stock configuation, I'd say
so. Of course tweak the XPm to a real 2.5GHz (or higher) and watch it
run circles around everything else in my collection.


Who needs ricer flags when you have ricer hardware? ;-)


-Drew
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