no you won't really gain anything for regular mundane tasks like that. Jimmy Bradley wrote: > On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 12:12 +0000, Steve Searle wrote: >> Around 12:06pm on Sunday, February 03, 2008 (UK time), Jimmy Bradley scrawled: >> >>> and open it up to find out. Is there a command entered by way of the >>> terminal window that will tell me what kind of cpu I have? I want to say >>> that it's an AMD sempron 3000+, but I'm not sure. >> cat /proc/cpuinfo >> >> Steve >> > Thanks, > Below is my cpu info. I'm thinking it's a 32bit cpu. Correct me if I'm > wrong please. > While I'm on the subject, I have a 64bit board that I haven't installed > in a case yet. Plus I still need to get a cpu for it. My question is, > would I really gain anything right now by going to a 64bit machine? Sure > I know I would if I was doing graphics and multimedia, but I'm just > doing record keeping,plus the other regular computer stuff, finances and > email, and so on. > > Jim > processor : 0 > vendor_id : AuthenticAMD > cpu family : 15 > model : 44 > model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ > stepping : 2 > cpu MHz : 800.000 > cache size : 128 KB > fdiv_bug : no > hlt_bug : no > f00f_bug : no > coma_bug : no > fpu : yes > fpu_exception : yes > cpuid level : 1 > wp : yes > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca > cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt > 3dnowext 3dnow up pni lahf_lm ts fid vid ttp tm stc > bogomips : 1601.05 > >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Registered Microsoft Partner My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17