new puter. athlon x2, 64bit?

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PorkChopExpress
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got a new computer. needed one bad and they had a sale at office depot.

im wondering i if my athlon x2 is a 64 bit processor?

here is what i found out, seems so but i just want to be sure before i open it up.

All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64 (AMD's x86-64 implementation), Cool'n'Quiet, AMD Virtualization

from wiki.

thanks.


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Yep, it's 64 bit.

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If you really want to know every thing about your cpu dl CPU-Z.

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All Athlon X2's are 64-bit. For the record you will need a 64-bit O/S if you want to use 4GB+ RAM effectively.


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