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sumone · 03-27-2006, 10:35 AM

The only other OS I have on CD is Windows 2000 w/SP4. So I'm gonna try that out.

Is there a point of having a 64-bit processor if the OS is in 32-bit mode? I'm guessing the 64-bit extensions are something that must be enabled by the OS; if the OS doesn't enable them, there's really no point then, right? You can only address a 4gig virtual memory space.

03-27-2006, 10:35 AM	#3 (permalink)
sumone Newb Techie Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 26	The only other OS I have on CD is Windows 2000 w/SP4. So I'm gonna try that out. Is there a point of having a 64-bit processor if the OS is in 32-bit mode? I'm guessing the 64-bit extensions are something that must be enabled by the OS; if the OS doesn't enable them, there's really no point then, right? You can only address a 4gig virtual memory space.