purple_goat
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So I was just wondering if the core 2 duo is 32 or 64 bit (I have an E6600)?
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Core 2 Duo
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sam fisher
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I think all core duos are 64 bit, I know all the pentium D's were. Would be a bit weird to step backwards, heh.
nickspoon
vultum stultum habes
They're all 64-bit.
If you're thinking of installing 64-bit Linux, don't.
If you're thinking of installing 64-bit Linux, don't.
purple_goat
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why not?nickspoon said:
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sam fisher
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Compatibility my friend. Plus curretly there isn't any bonus to 64 bit precision. lol. uless you must go over 2^31 + 2^31 + 2^30 ... 2^0
I guess that could be expessed as a geometric sequence?
edit: Or would it be (2^31)!
I guess that could be expessed as a geometric sequence?
edit: Or would it be (2^31)!
Exophase
Nothing good will ever come of Exophase.
There is bonus to having double the integer and XMM registers though...
Not to mention emulating 64bit platforms. At least whenever we start seeing dynarecs for that (will happen soon for PCSX2, won't it?)
Not to mention emulating 64bit platforms. At least whenever we start seeing dynarecs for that (will happen soon for PCSX2, won't it?)
purple_goat
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would XP be faster for me in 64bit?
Ravnos
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Don't bother with 64-bit XP, it's a waste of time. Everything you'll run will be 32-bit anyway, since Windows is severely lacking in 64-bit apps.purple_goat said:
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purple_goat
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any other opinions?
Ravnos
Asleep in Samsara
The only 32-bit software I've had a problem with under 64-bit Gentoo is VMWare, but it's more of an ALSA/OSS issue (I don't get any sound.) Pretty much everything else I've tried runs fine. Gentoo handles the 32/64 mix better than some other distros that try to have a strictly 64-bit environment, like Debian and it's derivatives. It's like pulling teeth trying to get 32-bit stuff to run there. I don't know if that's been fixed in Ubuntu or not yet, but I know they were talking about it.
WarmFluffyUK
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XP 64 bit is also severely lacking in driver support.purple_goat said:
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nickspoon
vultum stultum habes
64-bit Linux has problems with codecs and binary-only applications such as Flash Player. To get around it, you have to chroot, which is quite complicated.
Jarska333
What do you want?
Math is delicious!
sam fisher
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Is that a reply to my post?
Ravnos
Asleep in Samsara
No, only pure 64-bit distros have to do that. Gentoo splits 32- and 64-bit libs up so you can use both without chrooting. I think SuSE might, too, but I'm not sure, I'm just going on hearsay there. I know some people consider such systems "messy", but hey, it works.nickspoon said:
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The Core 1 Duos are 32-bit. Core 2 Duos are 64-bit.sam fisher said:
It wasn't a step backwards so much as a sideways step. The Core chips are based on the Pentium M architecture which continued to be developed while the Pentium 4 was in production.
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purple_goat
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so then stick with 32 bit windows, and linux?
I wonder what could be causing my problems with installing linux then?
I wonder what could be causing my problems with installing linux then?
Sphinxter
Says What?
I personally love 64 bit linux, (gentoo amd64, e17), don't think I've enjoyed any os/platform/desktop combination anywhere near this much, like, ever. Think you'd be a fool to shuck out all that money then go and cripple it. You get used to living flashless, the browser and whole web experience is actually greatly improved without it but you can always run 32 bit apps as firefox-bin or mplayer-bin and see flash, wmv etc, have both 32 and 64 bit apps and libraries at once if that's what you want, mix and match seamlessly is not a problem.purple_goat said:
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I couldn't see anywhere stating what your problems were installing Linux, unless they're in another thread.purple_goat said:so then stick with 32 bit windows, and linux?
I wonder what could be causing my problems with installing linux then?
32-bit Linux in general is going to be better for you if it's your first time with Linux. Some distros do 64-bit very well, but the extra tweaking required to get Flash, Wine, etc. going will probably be very discouraging for a new user.
64-bit Ubuntu for example is a bit faster than the 32-bit version, but I don't like how it integrates 32-bit apps into it. Getting 32-bit Firefox going should be much easier than it is. That said, Ubuntu does come with 32-bit support libraries, so you can generally install everything you need, and if you can carefully follow instructions you can get most stuff working fine under the 64-bit version.
On a more technical level, cross-compiling apps for ia32 under GCC 3 is apparently impossible in Ubuntu 64-bit, which prevents me from using it (without doing a chroot.) I've heard SUSE is much better in this respect.
If you are having some specific problem trying to install a distro, particularly Ubuntu, let me know and I'll try to help you out.
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