x86_64 Vs. i386
Jeffrey Ross
jeff at bubble.org
Wed May 30 20:14:04 UTC 2007
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jeffrey Ross wrote:
>> Ok, now that FC7 is about to be released shortly I am going to
>> upgrade from FC6 X86_64 to FC7. My question is, is it worth going
>> with the x64_86 version? Although I never tried the i386 version on
>> this hardware I found that I had a lot of grief with internet plugins
>> on the 64 bit architecture and noticed that everything seemed to
>> treat the hardware as a dual processor machine (eg no single process
>> would take more than 50% of the total CPU).
>>
>> So what's the advantage of using the 64 bit OS anything? I don't run
>> that many CPU intensive applications, my use consists of the vast
>> majority of use being internet browsing, email, word processing.
>>
>> Right now I'm leaning towards the i386 version, any reason not to?
>> suggestions, comments?
>
> What are the hardware specs of this machine? Just from the description
> of usage it sounds like you just choose the 32 bit version. Note that
> you will have do a clean installation instead of a upgrade for the
> arch switch.
>
> Rahul
>
I realize I'd have to do a clean install. At least I put my /home on a
separate disk partition so I don't have to wipe that partition.
The hardware is a Intel motherboard (DG965RY) with 2 GB of memory and a
2.8Ghz Pentium D processor.
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