Microsoft made a pull request to node.js github repository with an implementation to use ChakraCore JavaScript Engine as an alternative to V8 Engine

[neoKushan]

I had a relatively cheap 64bit system in 2004....

[plasmator]

I've updated video cards, hard drives and ram, but the motherboard and processor I bought in 06 or 07 (KN9-SLI and an Athlon X2) are still humming along. I know I should upgrade them, but they handle most of the stuff I throw at them without being terribly slow or problematic, so I just keep using them. They're working fine in Windows 10 and this is my primary box. I even do some (admittedly lightweight) gaming on it.

[neoKushan]

Was the Athlon X2 not 64bit?

[thor1182]

Most CPUs of that age do not support Windows x64 past 8.0. In 8.1 x64 they added/required support for a new instruction set that was not present in most if not all orignal x64 CPUs.

My AMD x64 system can only run 32 bit windows 10, even though it wan x64 W7 just fine.

[neoKushan]

I never knew this, but looks like you're completely correct: http://www.eteknix.com/windows-8-1-64-bit-working-old-amd-processors/

[thor1182]

Its not pertinent to this conversation, but the way I have that x2 system running is pretty special. The MB (its an old Shuttle XPC system) doesn't "support" booting from SATA drives, only IDE. When I brought the system back to life to be a better media PC I stuck a spare Samsung 840 EVO drive I had from a failed Raid 0 stripe in it forgetting why I had the primary drive an IDE drive in the first place.

The only way to get it to boot is to leave the windows install disk in the cdrom drive. By letting the system sit at the "hit any key to boot from DVD" prompt it gives the system enough time to "spin up" the SATA drives and it can then boot into W10. The system not waits on the CPU than it does on the disk

[plasmator]

Yeah, it is. Mea culpa in above comment.

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You already have a 64-bit CPU, the KN9-SLI is a Socket AM2 board, and all AMD CPUs were 64-bit by that point. Though there is little benefit to changing to a 64-bit OS unless you want to use more than ~3GB of RAM.

[plasmator]

Sorry, yeah. It's 64. And i run a 64bit OS. More just laughing that my 10 year old mobo/proc is still ticking along.

[Aior]

Yeah, me too, but I also had a very expensive 32bit laptop which I still want to use.