[plug] urgent questions about 64bit and hardware...

[Evert van Dijk]

I realise that this reply might be little late buit here goes my answer

Senectus . wrote:
> I've just had my PC cook the CPU for no reason (Barton 2800) and I'm
> now in urgent need of new hardware.
> I'd rather keep my costs low so I'd like to keep my AGP Nvidia 6600GT
> card and IDE hard drives and DVD burner.
> 
> But I've noticed now it's either Intel32 or AMD64 now on the market.
> Seeing as I'm out of the loop on AMD 64 these days does anyone know if
> you can still run Cedega/Wine/crossover office etc on a AMD64 PCU?
Apparently it is possible to run Cedega but I have not had any luck with
it, I asked the question on Whirlpool at the time and was adviced that
there is a lot of low level stuff that realy requires 32bits.
I hadn't tried crossover so i cannot say
I found issues with Kaffiene as I just could not find the right place to
put all the codecs, I tried all the logical places but no luck
Also Flash has some serious issues
(All this on Fedora 4 (64))

> 
> Is there any potential problems with installing x86 32bit Linux on a 64bit CPU??
> I want to purchase this stuff in the next hour or so, so time is of the essence.
I have the amd64 and am now running SuSE 10 32 bit and it runs like a
dream including Wine/Cedega and Crossover



> 
> Also is there any other shops like PLE open this weekend that will
> sell new CPU/Main boards at decent prices? (I love PLE.. but i still
> want a choice)
> 
> Thanks for your help guys..
> 
> 
> 
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