Processor_architecture question

[theS70RM]

Hi,

I use an Intel Core 2 processor, and under my environmental variables I have the following values:


PROCESSOR_IDENT IFIER = Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_ARCHI TECTURE = AMD64


my question is, why is the process architecture set to AMD64, should it be some other variant of x64 thats for Intels rather than AMD's???

I use vista x64 and im getting alot of ntdll.dll fatal errors, and am wondering if this is connected.


Any info is great.


Cheers

Andy

[Nepomuk]

That does look weird, but it's actually quite correct it seems. Here are two quotes I found:

All Core 2 processors support 64-bit. They are indeed all x86 processors, but they have 64-bit extensions; the naming is all pretty confusing. There's no such thing as 'x64' except as an abbreviation, they're more accurately x86-64 processors. They report as running in AMD64 mode because AMD invented the 64-bit extensions and Intel largely copied them; Intel's own IA-64 is the Itanium architecture and is not directly back-compatible with 32-bit code, making it slow to run and making the Itanium fairly unpopular.

(from http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1257925) and

...intel uses AMD's method of 64 bit processing, since it was much closer to "true" x64 then Intel's method was.

(from http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=251876)

So, it's weird, but it has nothing to do with your problem.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

[theS70RM]

ah ok.. I'll just ignore it then.

cheers!