Tuesday, August 11, 2009

32-Bit and 64-Bit - A Tiny Guide

This Guide is made by the CyberWarez Tech Team and also for use by cWc to promote them

And by Tiny We mean it!

Should be useful for many people.
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32-Bit

32-Bit is also known as x86 or i386, i486, i586 or the as common as x86, i686

List of CPUs which are 32-Bit (Please be advised this isn't a full list as there are many others which are not popular)
  • Intel 80386 aka i386 - Codename "P3" (NOTE: Just because its called P3 it's not really Pentium 3)
  • Intel 80486 aka i486 - Codename "P4"
  • Pentium I aka i586 - Codename "P5"
  • Pentium Pro aka Intel 80521 - Codename "P6"
  • Pentium II
  • Pentium III
  • Pentium IV (With HT or Without)
  • Pentium II Xeon
  • Pentium III Xeon
  • Pentium M
  • Pentium Dual-Core
  • Motorola 68000 Series

64-Bit

The Successor to the 32-Bit

Also known as x86_64, amd64, IA-64

List of CPUs which are 64-Bit (Not a Full List but it has the most popular Chips)
  • Intel Itanium Series
  • DEC ALPHA aka alpha AXP
  • AMD Athlon 64
  • AMD Athlon 64 FX
  • AMD Athlon 64 X2
  • AMD Turion 64
  • AMD Turion 64 X2
  • AMD Opteron
  • AMD Sempron
  • Newer Versions of Intel Xeon, Intel Celeron D, Intel Pentium 4, Intel Pentium D, Intel Pentium Extreme Edition
  • Intel Core 2
  • Some Intel Pentium Dual Core
  • Newer Intel Celeron's
  • UltraSPARC
  • SPARC V9
  • SPARC64
  • IBM POWER3 and Newer
  • IBM/Motorola POWER3 and RS64 variants
  • IBM zSeries
  • MIPS IV
  • MIPS V
  • MIPS64
  • HP PA-RISC 2.0 and Newer
  • Sony Playstation 2 CPU :o

End Notes
If you have a CPU not listed, please post it here. You will be credited

Final Stuff
I'd would like to Thank:

CyberWarez for my chance to be here
Wikipedia for some of the Info
AMD, Intel, Sony, IBM, HP, Sun and Others for the CPUs
Creative Commons for my protection
My Dad for introducing me to technology
CyberWarez again for this place!

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