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Old 08-01-2014, 03:45 PM
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Socket P. Alas.
Peter
It might still depend on CPU. AFAIK, Core 2, inluding Socket P, were 64-bit, though mostly they shipped with a 32-bit OS. There were also older CPU's shipped with that Socket, but even so, some of them are still 64-bit, IIRC.

To be sure, you can check the CPU flags:

In Windows, you can use the CPU-Z utility to determine your CPU architecture. In the linked example, look at the Instructions line, where you'll see the flag EM64T - that means it's capable of 64-bit addressing.

In Linux, open a terminal, copy and paste the following line to the command line and execute (press Enter). You'll get a printout of all the flags per core (they should be identical) - you're looking for the flag em64t or lm:
Code:
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -e flags -e "model name" | uniq
Edit: Updated that flag - can be different in Linux! LM literally means "long mode".

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