[Wolves] hardware question

[Kevanf1]

On Apr 6, 2005 4:17 PM, Simon Burke <simon.burke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have recently upgraded one of my machines 'again' and something is
> getting to me and i just need my mind settling.
> 
> The motherboard is an Abit Socket 754 (nforce3)
> The processor is a sempron 2800+ s754.
> 
> 754 is usually 64bit athlon isnt it? so does tha mean that this
> sempron is 64 or 32 bit. Im confuesd with that, but that maybe because
> im sleep deprived. I know that socket A are 32 bit, but isnt 754
> 64bit??
> 
> Also i have nvraid setup for my two 160Gb SATA disks that are also on
> this. Though when i came to setup suse 9.2 (its the Mrs machine) it
> didnt see the raid 1 volume i created in the raid setup on motherboard
> but rather the two individual disks.
> 
> I need to flash the bios tonight, as abit only seem to have windows
> app for doing this i have to make the disks at work.
> 
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> Thanks,
> SimonB
> 
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I'm pretty sure the Sempron processors are all 32 bit.  Athlon 64's
and Opterons are 64 bit.  but I could be wrong.  I did check out AMD's
website and let's just say it isn't really helpful when asking this
question.

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