In <6f133dde0904080923k6f5296e9i6f3be3b80cedf638@mail.gmail.com>, HG wrote:
Thanks for all the comments. I'm still waiting for some delayed hardware and haven't been able to start with this.
Just as an advice: Do not install a 64bits system with a minimal RAM configuration. If possible, install at least 1GB. Prefer 2GB if you can afford it.
I got couple of mentions of this. The board supports 2Gb of memory and that is quite cheap. However, I really do not quite understand why not to install 64-bit OS on 64-bit CPU (I think Atom 330 is 64-bit, but haven't checked yet). Is 64-bit systems still unmatured? Or why?
All the memory addresses take up twice the space. Memory addresses are often stored in memory, so a 64-bit application will take more RAM than a 32-bit application, I've heard up to 30%. Most individual applications do not gain significant performance by moving from 32-bit to 64-bit and do not need to access more than 4GiB-4KiB of memory. So, you probably lose more than you gain installing 64-bit everything on a system with only 2GiB of memory. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ _/