[geeks] OS X on x86

Phil Brutsche phil at tux.obix.com
Mon Oct 17 10:11:44 CDT 2005


Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Does your Intel system have a PCIe system bus? I don't mean expansion
> (mezzanine), I mean the motherboard's I/O bus.

@ 2.4GHz, not likely.

There's a 99% chance that it has dual-channel memory, though, and that
will make more of a difference than single-channel memory with PCI-E.

> I assume AMD is going to move forward by increasing the use of
> HyperTransport and integrate it with PCIe.

Most AMD64 systems use HyperTransport to the PCI-E "switch".

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Phil Brutsche
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