Hand Book

Alisssaaa · n00b Joined: 09 Jan 2025 Posts: 1

Hi ya

whats the correct hand book to use to install Gentoo on a i7 3770 CPU@3.40Ghz 16gig memory

alittle lost looking at the wiki page.

cheers
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John R. Graham · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 3:10 am Post subject:

Hi, Alisssaaa.

Welcome to Gentoo! The i7 being a modern, 64-bit CPU, you want the Gentoo AMD64 Handbook, so named because AMD actually beat Intel to the punch on a 64-bit version of the x86 architecture.

- John
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 11:39 am Post subject:

Alisssaaa,

Intel actually let AMD win. Intel were distracted with the now dead Itanium, which they were pushing for 64 bit.
Unfortunately, it could not execute the existing 32 bit code base without an emulator, which made it very slow, so almost nobody bought it.
It was nicknamed Itanic for a reason :)

AMD brought out the Opteron, which could run all the existing 32 bit bit code and supported 64 bit code too. Hence amd64.
Intel actually licenced the design from AMD for their first amd64 compatible processors.

So much for the history.
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