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| Hey group, I'm thinking about replacing the old Pentium4 1,6ghz NW / Asus p4s333, with Athlon64 3000+ / MSI K8T-NEO2-FIR. I have a look at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AMD_64 where it says that "If you feel like gaming on an AMD 64 system you're probably best off booting to a 32bit gentoo installation although a chroot may work as well." Why is that?. As I understand, 32bit apps(and thereby games) run fine on a 64bit OS?. Also, http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/a...?part=2&chap=4 describes how to create 32bit compatibility.......why will this not work (properly) with Doom3 and UT2k4 ? When converting, how can this be done?. As I'm not changing HDs, I hope to be able to do something, that is as close as possible to a system recompile. Can I recompile kernel to match new MB, shutdown, plug in the new MB/CPU, and startup. Then I should be running 32bit in the 64bit system. Then unmerge the packages that don't compile on 64bit(like OpenOffice). Make the appropriate changes in /etc/make.conf, and then.....? Kind regards, Stig |