Re: Help with new PC

Steve(JazzHunter) wrote: 
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:26:32 -0500, Pat <heismanpat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Vince Loptson wrote:

I have heard that some software wont work with AMD 64 bit chipsets??

Not likely. The AMD64 fully supports x86 code (i.e. 32-bit Windows). 


There are issues with AMD amd legacy applications.  One example is
DivX encoding which takes over ten times longer on the AMD than Intel
at the highest speeds.


Why is that?
.

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