Phenom 2 ?

[Ex-Bay]

My computer had another of it's occasional hiccoughs recently. Whatever went wrong it is almost instant Blue Screen after the BIOS had done its bit. But a chat with the shop got me how to get it better.
However,
I bought a bare bones machine (Case, CPU, Mbd, RAM). I collected it today. It's an AMD Phenom 2.
Google has not been a lot of help. Anything other than "its a CPU" or "it's otherwise known as K10" is impossible to find.
I am told it's a dual -core thing. Does this mean I need XP64 ?

 

[Searchwatergeek]

My computer had another of it's occasional hiccoughs recently. Whatever went wrong it is almost instant Blue Screen after the BIOS had done its bit. But a chat with the shop got me how to get it better.
However,
I bought a bare bones machine (Case, CPU, Mbd, RAM). I collected it today. It's an AMD Phenom 2.
Google has not been a lot of help. Anything other than "its a CPU" or "it's otherwise known as K10" is impossible to find.
I am told it's a dual -core thing. Does this mean I need XP64 ?

Na mate as long as ur have less than 4gb of ram no need for 64bit OS, so AMD phenom 2? l have the 920 quad core and run it with vista home 32bit os no dramas with it.

So if u have more than 4gb go get 64 bit OS if less than 4gb go 32bit OS with that if you have 4gb your system can only see about 3.5gb of it if you are using 32bit OS.

Right my head hurts ttfn hope this helps.

 

[monobrow]

XP 64 bit is crap. If however you want to utilise the 64 bit properly you will have to go to Vista or 7 64 bit (or one of the many Linux 64 bit distro's). 64 bit capable chips will run XP 32 bit much as I am doing now...

As for info on the Phenom II -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenom_II

 

[Ex-Bay]

Thanks guys. That could save me some cash, then.