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Evzin

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Registered: 2008-10-05

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i686 or x64?

Was using Arch i686 for last couple years. Now i got new desktop with Quad Q6600/4GB RAM... so now im thinking if i should install Arch i686 again or go for x64.

Will i get noticeble perfomance improvement on x64?
So far i get i686 system wont be able to use all 4GB of memory?
I use wine often. I found wiki page describing how to compile it on x64, but how stable it actually works?

Sorry for noob questions

Dieter@be

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Registered: 2006-11-05

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Re: i686 or x64?

Will i get noticeble perfomance improvement on x64?

Maybe.  It will be a bit faster. If you will notice it, that's a different story.

I use wine often. I found wiki page describing how to compile it on x64, but how stable it actually works?

I think all the open source software out there works just as well on 64bit as on 32bit.
Closed source things like Flash are a bit harder to configure on 64bit but it's actually still quite simple.  By coincidence I did it today but it was pretty easy.  Just follow the wiki and you should be fine ( http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _on_Arch64 )

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BabyDoc

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Registered: 2008-03-20

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Re: i686 or x64?

I'd say give x64 a try, if  everything you need works you keep it. Else you just install i686 afterwards.

slumslayer

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Registered: 2008-09-14

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Re: i686 or x64?

There is also a PKGBUILD for Wine on AUR : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7915

skottish

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Re: i686 or x64?

64 bit WINE will only run 64 bit binaries. It's basically pointless. But, after you get Flash 10 and it's many, many 32 bit dependencies running, you'll only need a few more libraries to run WINE, Skype, and stuff like that.

Last edited by skottish (2008-10-05 20:33:29)