fc4 on AMD64 dual core

[Amadeus W.M.]

Just wondering what are people's experiences on dual core AMD64. Is this
architecture fully supported by fc4? Is fc4 stable on this architecture? 
Is fc4 optimized for amd64 x2?

I looked up the recommended motherboards at the AMD web site and all but a
few had an Nvidia chipset (the others VIA). Do I have to worry about
drivers? Do I have to download drivers from Nvidia the way we do for the
Nvidia video cards each time we upgrade the kernel? Which chipset is
natively supported by fc4?

Thanks!

[Gilboa Davara]

For all intent and purposes, dual core A64 == Dual Opteron. (Let alone
dual, dual core Opteron :))
FC4 x86-64 / nVidia 76.76 works just fine on my dual Opteron machine.

Gilboa

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 10:37 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> Just wondering what are people's experiences on dual core AMD64. Is this
> architecture fully supported by fc4? Is fc4 stable on this architecture? 
> Is fc4 optimized for amd64 x2?
>
> I looked up the recommended motherboards at the AMD web site and all but a
> few had an Nvidia chipset (the others VIA). Do I have to worry about
> drivers? Do I have to download drivers from Nvidia the way we do for the
> Nvidia video cards each time we upgrade the kernel? Which chipset is
> natively supported by fc4?
>
> Thanks!

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> Just wondering what are people's experiences on dual core AMD64. Is this
> architecture fully supported by fc4? Is fc4 stable on this architecture?
> Is fc4 optimized for amd64 x2?

dual cores looks like two cpu's. To the extent that multicpu 
amd64/opterons are well supported by fc4 so are the dual cores. My only 
dual core box is a dual processor dual core built on a tyan k8sd pro 
which works fine as far as I'm concerned...
> I looked up the recommended motherboards at the AMD web site and all but a
> few had an Nvidia chipset (the others VIA). Do I have to worry about
> drivers? Do I have to download drivers from Nvidia the way we do for the
> Nvidia video cards each time we upgrade the kernel? Which chipset is
> natively supported by fc4?

All the chipset integrated pieces in the via chipset boards are well 
supported. I have no personal experience with the nforce-4 ultra, there 
are people in here who've used it.
> Thanks!

[Steve Underwood]

Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> > Just wondering what are people's experiences on dual core AMD64. Is this
> > architecture fully supported by fc4? Is fc4 stable on this architecture?
> > Is fc4 optimized for amd64 x2?
>
> dual cores looks like two cpu's. To the extent that multicpu 
> amd64/opterons are well supported by fc4 so are the dual cores. My 
> only dual core box is a dual processor dual core built on a tyan k8sd 
> pro which works fine as far as I'm concerned...
> > I looked up the recommended motherboards at the AMD web site and all 
> > but a
> > few had an Nvidia chipset (the others VIA). Do I have to worry about
> > drivers? Do I have to download drivers from Nvidia the way we do for the
> > Nvidia video cards each time we upgrade the kernel? Which chipset is
> > natively supported by fc4?
>
> All the chipset integrated pieces in the via chipset boards are well 
> supported. I have no personal experience with the nforce-4 ultra, 
> there are people in here who've used it.

I use an Asus A8N-E board with the nForce-4 Ultra chip set and an X2 
4200+. It works very well, except for one BIOS related quirk. It doesn't 
detect my IDE drive at startup. After a press of the reset everything is 
fine. I believe SATA drives work without a hitch.

Regards,
Steve

[Rey Cruz]

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 23:51 +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:
> Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> > > Just wondering what are people's experiences on dual core AMD64. Is this
> > > architecture fully supported by fc4? Is fc4 stable on this architecture?
> > > Is fc4 optimized for amd64 x2?
> >
> > dual cores looks like two cpu's. To the extent that multicpu 
> > amd64/opterons are well supported by fc4 so are the dual cores. My 
> > only dual core box is a dual processor dual core built on a tyan k8sd 
> > pro which works fine as far as I'm concerned...
> > > I looked up the recommended motherboards at the AMD web site and all 
> > > but a
> > > few had an Nvidia chipset (the others VIA). Do I have to worry about
> > > drivers? Do I have to download drivers from Nvidia the way we do for the
> > > Nvidia video cards each time we upgrade the kernel? Which chipset is
> > > natively supported by fc4?
> >
> > All the chipset integrated pieces in the via chipset boards are well 
> > supported. I have no personal experience with the nforce-4 ultra, 
> > there are people in here who've used it.
>
> I use an Asus A8N-E board with the nForce-4 Ultra chip set and an X2 
> 4200+. It works very well, except for one BIOS related quirk. It doesn't 
> detect my IDE drive at startup. After a press of the reset everything is 
> fine. I believe SATA drives work without a hitch.
>
> Regards,
> Steve

I just built my new computer about a month ago and it is running fine. I
had no trouble installing FC4 on it. The only problem I had was that yum
died during the update and I had to remove all the double packages by
hand. Just remember there is no java and flash for 64-bit versions of
browsers yet so if you need it just install the 32-bit version of
firefox, java, and flash's plugin.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
BFG Tech Geforce 6600GT
Corsair XMS 1GB DDR
2 Sata drives
Fedora Core 4 64-bit

Rey Cruz