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creyato
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 Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:49 pm Post subject: What arch for Core 2 Duo? |
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| Hey, I'm building a Core 2 Duo system pretty soon and plan on putting Gentoo on it. What arch should I be using for it? AMD64? |
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poly_poly-man
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:11 am Post subject: |
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AFAIK, you should go to IA64, though AMD64 should work also.
Does anyone know the difference?
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| poly_poly-man wrote: | AFAIK, you should go to IA64, though AMD64 should work also.
Does anyone know the difference?
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No, not IA64, that is for Itanium. AMD64 for 64bit, x86 for 32bit. |
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| You probably want AMD64, but you could also use x86 if want to use 32bit to avoid some fairly minor problems. |
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:49 am Post subject: |
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The Core2Duo is a processor that uses the IA-32 microarchitecture with EM64T extension. That makes it similar to an AMD Athlon 64 processor. Although it is not a true 64 bit processor (not IA-64 microarchitecture) it can process the 64bit instruction set and features the 64bit address register extensions and general purpose registers. That means you can choose to run a traditional 32bit x86 or an x86-64 system. An x86-64 system is capable of running 32bit and 64bit applications. The 64bit applications can use 4GB address space per process (2GB in x86).
People having used the 64bit systems claim overall speed increases. It's caveat however is that some drivers and applications are 32bit only and sometimes 32-bit emulation doesn't work. If you wish to have a 64bit system use the AMD64 CD, use the i686 CD for a 32bit system.
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