PCIE,64Bit and Duo-Core in Linux

Mark Havel · 07-18-2007, 04:33 PM

Well it seems you'll have to either buy a new motherboard and a Core 2 Duo CPU either buy a Netburst based CPU...

2Pacalypse · 07-21-2007, 03:46 PM

Ok, Last question. I already chose which CPU I am getting (Intel P4 650) however there is just one thing I am unsure about it, he is 64Bit and I really dont wanna mess with Wine/Java and things like they with they incompatability with 64Bit so If I would Install a NORMAL regular i686 32bit version of Linux, any Linux, will everything, including Wine, Java and Linux itself run normally just as it would on a 32bit or will he still have the 64bit problem

lazlow · 07-21-2007, 04:13 PM

32bit runs fine on a 64bit cpu. It is what I am running right now and have been running since FC4.

jay73 · 07-21-2007, 05:15 PM

As long as you use an OS that is not pure AMD64 (Ubuntu, Debian), you should be able to use Opera, win32codecs, java, flash etc even on a 64 bit system (I'm doing it without any problems whatsoever on Fedora 7). Fedora offers both 32 and 64 bit firefox, by the way although I use the 64 one with nspluginwrapper only. The wrapper will work to some extent on Debian as well but it's true that there are still quite a few apps that won't work at all (Opera, Realplayer, Compiz, ...), at least on the testing release.