64-bit Processors
Joel Jaeggli
joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Sat Feb 21 17:00:27 UTC 2004
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Timothy J. Miller wrote:
>
> Question re: the AMD line of Processors, I currently am considering
> updgrading a machine and am looking at the AMD Processors. Is there a way
> to tell which are 64bit and which are 32bit? For example, is the AMD
> Athlon XP a 64 bit processor or a 32bit?
if it says amd 64 or opteron then it's 64bit... if you're considering a
move to 64bit amd then you're also considering a motherboard upgrade.
if you're consdering an athlon xp as a drop-in replacement for another
athlon xp you need to be mindful that your current motherboard may not
support a 333mhz or 400mhz fsb cpu core which would practically limit you
to an athlon xp 2400+ or something similar... That's not a bad cpu by any
means and they're cheap (~$80 or less).
> Thanks!
> - Tim
>
>
>
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