[CentOS] cpu type

Jimmy Bradley wrote:
> would I really gain anything right now by going to a 64bit machine? 

Not unless you put at least 4 GB of RAM in it, and from your description 
of what you do, you have no good reason to do that.

If you don't have enough RAM to need 64-bit addressing, you're just 
slowing the system down, making it deal with larger addresses for no 
benefit.