I recommend that you go for it! The one hiccup you might run into is that exotic hardware (that is, hardware that is uncommon) might not have x64 compatible drivers. I've started an x64 driver database on my website, here.
Anyone have any other multiprocessor aware benchmarks that I can throw at this system?
What about a *decent* 64-bit memory benchmark? The only one I can find, in SiSoft Sandra locks the machine up (I don't think it can handle 128gb of ram!)
Btw, to whoever runs that page: can you change...
Heh, problem is it only has an 8mb ATI Rage XL video card, and I'm using it all via Remote Desktop :)
Forgot to mention, it's running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition.
Oh, and I figured out that this processor is the Opteron 875. So it has 8xOpteron 875 which are all Dual...
I don't want to make anyone cry, but here are my results:
this other relative
computer computer performance
Dhrystone 2.1 96141 11682 kDhryst. 822 percent
Whetstone...