Version for Intel Processors Without PAE NX Bit

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The OpenBSD site says that it is safer to install OpenBSD/i386 instead of OpenBSD/amd64 on Intel chips with AMD64 extensions that don't support the PAE NX bit. Does the same apply with FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64, or is it handled differently in FreeBSD? If it does apply, how can you find out if your chip supports the PAE NX bit? Is there a feature that will show for the cpu in dmesg?
 
The OpenBSD Site says this:

Some Intel processors lack support for important PAE NX bit, which means those machines will run without any W^X support -- it is thus safer to run those machines in i386 mode
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Is that wrong, or does it not apply to FreeBSD?
 
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