[RESOLVED] Old Dell; choose 32 or 64bit?

I have an old tower-case Dell, Vostro410, which currently runs 32-bit Windows7 on the internal drive.
It's ten years old (so is the hard drive); Intel core2Duo E8400; 4GB RAM; 3.25GHz.
The system is a 32-bit; however I'm currently running a 64-bit Zorin Core 12.4 on a Toshiba 1Tb
external drive attached. It doesnt seem to have any problems; my printer and scanner work (both Canon) and
in fact the whole Zorin OS seems pleasant and easy to use, despite my having very little Linux knowledge.
As you know, Windows 7 goes out of support next year (2020) and I'd like soon to put Zorin on my main hard drive. I don't
want to go to Windows 10 or fork out for new hardware.
But, 32 or 64 bit Zorin? It would be good to get a few more years' use out of the hardware, there's nothing really wrong with it.
I've read some articles on 32/64 choice but still can't decide what's technically right for this computer.

Hi check out this article and then check the link given:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/i ... 64bit.html

for simplicity, in Zorin, open a Terminal (Ctrl+ Alt+ T) and enter:

Code:

lscpu

here's my results:

swarfendor437@makulu1:~$ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
Address sizes: 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
CPU(s): 16
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-15
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 8
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
CPU family: 23
Model: 1
Model name: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight-Core Processor
Stepping: 1
CPU MHz: 1887.655
CPU max MHz: 3400.0000
CPU min MHz: 2200.0000
BogoMIPS: 6787.70
Virtualization: AMD-V
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 64K
L2 cache: 512K
L3 cache: 8192K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-15
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb hw_pstate sme ssbd sev ibpb vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 rdseed adx smap clflushopt sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves clzero irperf xsaveerptr arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif overflow_recov succor smca

Hi
Thank you for that. I read the article and managed to check the ARK link for E8400; the results said the instruction set for the processor is 64-bit....so that's good! When I get sorted out and ready to install, I've got Zorin 64-bit on a USB ready to hand.