[Gllug] AMD64

[George Wright]

I'm going to be upgrading my desktop at Christmas to an Athlon 64 3500+ with 
an Asus A8V motherboard hopefully. I have a couple of questions though as 
this will be my first entry into high performance desktop stuff:

Any caveats regarding Linux support on AMD64? I presume I'll just be able to 
use Linux in 32-bit mode as it's got all the native x86 instructions as well 
as the x86-64 stuff. Is the Via chipset well supported on Linux? I don't 
intend to use the hardware RAID or SATA stuff (yet), so that's a non-issue at 
the moment.

Also, regarding dual channel memory, is it possible just to buy two memory 
modules that are the same make and model and use them in a dual channel 
setup, or do I need to actually get a specific dual channel kit? I'd like to 
grab just a couple of eBuyer 512MB PC3200 dimms as they're just under 50 GBP 
each, and hopefully use them in dual channel mode.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
George Wright, http://www.gwright.org.uk
KDE Developer - http://www.kde.org
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