On Tuesday 15 June 2010 17:54:03 Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > In the end I gave up, got an Intel board for my desktop machine, and I
> > now use the AMD board as a server for crunching data in text mode!
>
> Modern processors from both AMD and Intel can be operated with both
> i386/i686 (32 bit) distributions and amd64/x86-64 (64 bit) systems.
> There was no need to buy new hardware to fix this issue :)
Tried i386, no change. I've had problems with Maplin boards in the past -- I
don't think they're as good a spec. which is why they give them away cheap. I
only went in for a new power supply -- it was one of those "deja-vu all over
again" moments.
I think I've landed with the best solution to my needs: The dual-core
replacement board came with a batch of "junk" (sometimes it blows my mind what
people are happy to throw out of offices in London... more money than sense! );
and a 3-gig athlon processor running jobs remotely, and crunching video data
with ffmpeg, really flies in text mode -- much more convenient to run the
machine over the network than have my own machine running at a snails-pace.
P.
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