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Old 03-17-2008, 11:12 PM   #5 (permalink)
cnico88
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Default Re: Is Vista x64 worth the trouble?

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Originally Posted by aaronkupen View Post
When I used Windows x64, I never really ran into issues. If you have above 3 Gigs of ram in a 32 bit system you might actually run into Vista update problems so I would recommend just going with the 64 bit OS; however, with only 4 gigabytes of ram both operating systems will probably end up performing the same. <-- But from my experience, I ran into more problems having more than 3 gigs on 32 bit vista than with working with 64 bit vista.
was it really buggy or it didn't update at all? I just ran it the whole day so far and I can see a increase in performance when it comes to games. Overall surfing and small tasks also work fine. Like I said I am only going to gain about 512MB more ram if I upgrade.
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