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02-10-2008, 11:26 AM
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Monster Techie Join Date: May 2005 Location: Virginia Posts: 1,839
|  32-bit or 64-bit vista?
I've got an opty 165, 2gb of ram. I'm thinking about upgrading to penryn later so would 64-bit be good?
~thanks
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02-10-2008, 11:33 AM
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| Re: 32-bit or 64-bit vista?
Upgrading to penryn wouldnt matter. 64 bit just allows more ram to be installed. so if your planning on upgrading ram to 4 gigs then yea go with 64 bit. because 32 bit only recognizes 3 gigs.
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02-10-2008, 11:46 AM
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| Re: 32-bit or 64-bit vista?
well i'll be doing a dual boot between XP home and vista business. I thought the 64bit or 32bit related to the processor somehow... How does XP run with 4Gb of ram though?
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02-10-2008, 11:51 AM
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| Re: 32-bit or 64-bit vista?
theres a 32 and 64 bit version of XP 
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02-10-2008, 11:55 AM
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| Re: 32-bit or 64-bit vista?
i know but i don't want to buy a 64bit version of XP. My school has MSDN for a class i'm in and i can only get the 32-bit version. However i can get the 32 or 64 bit of vista (business  ). Would there be any advantage to having a 64bit OS with 2GB of ram? or would that be pointless?
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02-10-2008, 12:00 PM
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| Re: 32-bit or 64-bit vista?
well its pointless in having 64 bit and only 2 gigs but what i'd do is go ahead and bump up to 4 gigs if your running cad and use it in Vista 64bit and when you dual boot with xp 32 the OS will only see 3 out a your 4 gigs in the 32 bit xp.
But if your not running anything htats memory hungry like CAD or games then id jsut leave it at 2 gigs of ram and jsut get both 32 bit OS's
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02-10-2008, 12:11 PM
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| Re: 32-bit or 64-bit vista?
I think i'm gonna just get the 32 bit version since i don't feel like upgrading ram.
thanks for the help!
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02-10-2008, 12:32 PM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 994
| Re: 32-bit or 64-bit vista?
Your welcome cheers
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02-11-2008, 07:06 PM
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Monster Techie Join Date: May 2005 Location: Virginia Posts: 1,839
| Re: 32-bit or 64-bit vista?
do you have to have software specifically for a 64 bit operating system?
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02-11-2008, 07:29 PM
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| Re: 32-bit or 64-bit vista?
nope some programs are optimized in 64 bit ie CAD. its jsut not worth it unless gaming/heavy CAD work.
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