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Re: AMD CPU [message #29112 is a reply to message #29022]

Wed, 30 January 2002 13:34

Rick Towler
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Registered: August 1998

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"Richard Tyc" wrote

> Huh. Win2K recomended.

Yes, very much so even if you are working with NT4. I used to run win98se
and when I started developing with objects IDL would lock up often. This
was due in part to poor memory management on my part but take the same
un-debugged program and work with it in IDL on win2k and you can happily
consume all of the free ram you like. IDL has only crashed on me maybe 2 or
3 times in 2 years of heavy daily use.

>> MAke sure you have W2K and it will be just fine.

I disagree with Pavel in that I don't think you *need* to run win2k if you
have an AMD processor. I have had no problems on AMD+win98+IDL
configurations in the past. I think you would be much happier... but who
are we to tell you how to run your life :)

>>> I thought it was a non issue, but the salesman at the computer store did
>>> mention that some customers using "high end graphics and video editing
>>> software" have experienced problems on AMD based PC's compared with
>>> Intel's.

The only thing that he could be referring to is the AGP cache coherency
problem where "The problem lies in conflicting accesses to a block of memory
by both the AGP processor and the CPU. The problem is more likely to occur
with a 4MB page size, I assume because the large page size makes it more
likely for the CPU's memory mappings to collide with the AGP processor's
ones." This problem was resolved a while back when AMD issued a registry
patch that forces windows to use 4k pages and a workaround has been floating
around for AMD based linux systems too.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/23749.html

-Rick

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		AMD CPU By: Richard Tyc on Wed, 30 January 2002 08:11
		Re: AMD CPU By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 31 January 2002 09:54
		Re: AMD CPU By: Robert Stockwell on Wed, 30 January 2002 16:13
		Re: AMD CPU By: Brian Jackel on Wed, 30 January 2002 13:32
		Re: AMD CPU By: Rick Towler on Wed, 30 January 2002 13:34
		Re: AMD CPU By: Andrew Cool on Wed, 30 January 2002 13:15
		Re: AMD CPU By: Robert Stockwell on Wed, 30 January 2002 10:45
		Re: AMD CPU By: Richard Tyc on Wed, 30 January 2002 10:07
		Re: AMD CPU By: bgeer on Wed, 30 January 2002 08:59
		Re: AMD CPU By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 30 January 2002 08:45
		Re: AMD CPU By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 30 January 2002 08:30

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