Is the Intel Pentium D 950 a 64 bit processor?

[Bhavani Shankar R]

Yes... I am using it as my processor..

On 3/24/07, Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 15:05 -0400, Amit Prahesh wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a newb/dummy question. I have a PC that has an Intel Pentium D
> > 950 processor (running @ 3.4 GHz.) According to Intel docs, it is
> > EM64T capable and it has two cores.
>
> Yes, it is capable of running the amd64 port of Ubuntu.
>
> > The question is this: is this processor better suited for the 64 bit
> > edition of Ubuntu?
>
> Depends on your chosen tasks. If it's a server that won't be used for
> youtube or multimedia, then going 64bit might be nice. If you're
> planning to use it as a desktop, though, then I'd say you should stick
> with 32bit.
>
> I don't think you'll see much overall performance benefit by going
> 64bit, and you'll lose a lot of desktop functionality (flash, real,
> w32codecs, skype). Of course there are ways around these problems, but
> it's a lot of pain for little or no benefit, in my opinion.
>
> Of course, you can dual boot or use dchroot to have both installed and
> running at the same time.
>
>
> mike
> > Thanks,
> > Amit.
> >
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