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2008-04-21 16:51:20
GCFC
Davide Santon
+45|6200|NY/CT
As most of you know Vista Ultimate comes with 2 cds
32bit and 64bit
i looked around a bit and cant seem to really find any reason to pick one over the other
i would like to know the overall performance and gaming performance advantages and disadvantages
links would be nice
thanks
2008-04-21 16:53:09
Bertster7
Confused Pothead
+1,101|6853|SE London

64-bit is better. It can use bigger numbers.
2008-04-21 16:53:10
GC_PaNzerFIN
Work and study @ Technical Uni
+528|6685|Finland

64bit is a bit faster and supports +3GB ram.
3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8
2008-04-21 16:59:09
GCFC
Davide Santon
+45|6200|NY/CT
i only have 2 right now though
2008-04-21 17:06:25
Scorpion0x17
can detect anyone's visible post count...
+691|7037|Cambridge (UK)
If you've got a 64bit CPU, then you have the choice to go with either 64bit or 32bit (or even both).

If you've got a 32bit CPU, then you're stuck with 32bit.


Personally, if I had a 64bit CPU, I'd install both, on separate partitions.
2008-04-21 17:11:33
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,054|7043|PNW

64-bit Vista and 32-bit XP if you want to dual-boot, TBH.
2008-04-21 17:18:13
Bertster7
Confused Pothead
+1,101|6853|SE London

Scorpion0x17 wrote:

If you've got a 64bit CPU, then you have the choice to go with either 64bit or 32bit (or even both).

If you've got a 32bit CPU, then you're stuck with 32bit.


Personally, if I had a 64bit CPU, I'd install both, on separate partitions.
And slash your hard drive access times? No thanks.

If you have 4GB of RAM or more, use 64-bit. Otherwise it is a less efficient operating environment, due to the much larger memory footprint inherent to 64-bit apps and stuff. You can only justify that when you get past the memory limitations of a 32-bit environment, unless doing something exceptionally specific.

 

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