Athlon 64 which os

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 7 months ago. Active 5 years, 8 months ago. Viewed 12k times. Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Yes, all Athlon 64 X2 processors are bits. You can upgrade to Windows 7 bit. Improve this answer. On a side note, if I upgrade to 7 64bit, will my computer recognize more of my installed memory? Yes, with windows 64bit you'll have the the full 4gb ram available.

That will bring me up to 3gb and I read somewhere that bit versions only support up to 3. However, the 2gb upgrade should be significant enough for me not to complain that I need it all the way to 4. But, why do you think it's not a good idea to upgrade to bit? What's WinTel, and is that the only disadvantage?

Sounds like an upgrade would be a good idea, no? I found this site that explains the situation very well. Your OS or operating system is 32 bit Vista. That is the main issue. Your machine is capable but you need bit version of Windows Vista.

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Internal structure of Athlon In the preceding chapter, we have the internal architecture of standard processors. We will see in this chapter the architecture of Athlons 64 bits also 64 FX and Opteron. Even if the heart of the processor seems equivalent, the various models differ mainly by their external components. The athlon 64 in the general direction use a mixed internal architecture 32 - 64 bits. A processor 64 bits using an operating system 64 bits can jointly use applications 32 and 64 bits.

On the other hand, case of the AMD, a processor 64 bits turning on an operating system 32 bits can make turn only of the applications 32 bits. Conversely, a processor 32 bits can use only operating systems and applications 32 bits. A broad part of the information taken again on this page comes directly from the site of AMD. Let us begin with the standard architecture of an athlon 64 family. It consists of 2 parts: the processor part as we know and the part "Northbridge", in the past included in the chipset.

In the part "Northbridge", one will find the interface memory DDR. It is the first difference between different the processor from the family 64 bits from AMD. Athlon 64 manage an external data bus of 64 bits, the FX and Opteron of the data buses of Bits.

The socket processor is thus different for the 64 and 64 FX. This developed method fine of the Eighties makes it possible to test "outside" the electronic circuit by memorizing the values of entries and exits.

It thus is not directly used in the PC.