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searching has not yielded any clear results. I have an AMD Sempron 3100+ cpu in my laptop, and I am unable to positively verify what architecture it is based on. I think I have read somewhere that it is k8, just like athlon64, just without any 64bit functionality. can anyone confirm or reject this?
that article requires me to either open my notebook, or run windows, in order to figure out my specs. is there another way? can I use any of the information in KInfoCenter?
Well, I was hoping there would be a cut-off where all cpu's under a certain mhz would be one architecture, but that does not appear to be the case. I can't help anymore than that because I don't know anything about these processors other than what I just read. I found the answer I posted by googling. From that article, it would appear that 3100's could be either. Sorry, don't have any other advice.
AMD Athlon, Athlon64, Opteron, and Sempron are 80686 compatible models. Taking off the heatsink and looking at the printed label is the one way to tell if the Sempron processor you have can handle 64-bit instructions.
You can try to ask someone that has an Athlon64 to compile a program with 64-bit instructions and compile it as a static linked program. If the program works on your processor, it could be a 64-bit Sempron processor.
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