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Newer page: version 8 Last edited on Thursday, November 6, 2003 11:18:29 am by JohnMcPherson
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 The bit of the computer that does all the execution of commands. 
  
 There are several different arch's that Linux supports, including (but not exclusively): 
-* [ia32] (also known as ix86) 
+* [ia32] (also known as ix86 - includes most Intel and [AMD] chips
 * [ia64] 
 * [PowerPC] 
 * [MIPS] 
 * [Alpha] 
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 * [ARM] 
  
 CPUs come in 2 flavours: [RISC] and [CISC], although the lines between the 2 are not clear-cut as they should be in theory... 
  
-See [CPUSockets] for cpu fittings onto motherboards. 
+See [CPUSockets] for cpu fittings onto motherboards, and MotherboardMonitoring for checking the current temperature of your CPU (under linux)