cpu, 32 or 64 bits?

[Member newuser]

hi, I installed antix 32 bit version a year and a half ago. It works very well. At that time I thought my processor was a 32 bit because I had the 32 bit windows vista preinstalled on it. I wasn’t sure the year of release but thought it was around 2009. Checking some commands, I’m very confused.

lscpu
Architecture: i686
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
Address sizes: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
CPU(s): 2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 2
Socket(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 23
Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6500 @ 2.10GHz
Stepping: 10
CPU MHz: 1600.000
CPU max MHz: 2100,0000
CPU min MHz: 1200,0000
BogoMIPS: 4189.48
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 2048K
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht
tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm dtherm

and

inxi -Fxz
System: Kernel: 4.9.212-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: bspwm 0.9.9
Distro: antiX-19.2.1_386-base Hannie Schaft 29 March 2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC v: Rev 1 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3628 v: 18.50 serial: <filter> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: F.42 date: 03/23/2010
CPU: Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo T6500 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn rev: A cache: L2: 2 MiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 bogomips: 8378
Speed: 1200 MHz min/max: 1200/2100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1200 2: 1200
Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV710/M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4530/4570/545v] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: radeon v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0
Device-2: Quanta type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-4:2
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: loaded: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1366×768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RV710 (DRM 2.49.0 / 4.9.212-antix.1-486-smp LLVM 7.0.1) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard dv6-1190en driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard dv6-1190en driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.212-antix.1-486-smp running: yes
Network: Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: wl v: kernel port: 7000
bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169
v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 5000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 6.22 GiB (2.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST9320325AS size: 298.09 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 29.47 GiB used: 6.22 GiB (21.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 1024 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 156 Uptime: 59m Memory: 2.93 GiB used: 1.19 GiB (40.7%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0
Packages: 1253 Shell: Zsh v: 5.7.1 inxi: 3.3.06

It seems to me the system supports 64 bits. Can I run the 64 bit antix OS?

• This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by newuser.

[Moderator BobC]

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Yes, its a 64 bit CPU, but you only have 4 gb of memory. Either 32 or 64 bit antiX should work.

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64-bit software only really matters if you have 6-8gb of ram or more. 4gb ram
and under runs 32-bit just fine. btw all the dual-core cpus are 64- bit.
If you have 4gb ram go for 64-bit under it go for 32-bit software for daily usage.

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