[dba-Tech] 64-bit chips

Arthur,

You can reuse all of the hardware on a new system except the CPU and
motherboard, but do you really want to? When doing upgrades of main board
and CPU I like to take advantage of faster memory, etc.

The only thing peculiar to using 64 bit hardware is the cpu and main board
in the Athlon 64 series. I don't know but think that Opteron may be
different, and also Intel's server class cpu.

Jim

> I would guess that one cannot upgrade a 32-bit motherboard with a 64-bit
> chip. This would imply that I demote my existing 32-bit boxes to
> mail-server, ftp-server and such, and replace them on the development
> stage
> with authentic ground-up 64-bit boxes. Is this correct, or is there any
> point in attempting to salvage and re-use old hardware....
> TIA,
> Arthur
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