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04-19-2007, 09:59 PM
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Junior Techie Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 95
|  Vista Home Premium 32bit or 64bit
Hi Guys.
I am thinking of getting vista home premium for my system in my sig. Should I get the 32bit or 64bit?
Cheers
Matt
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04-19-2007, 10:01 PM
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| Re: Vista Home Premium 32bit or 64bit
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Originally Posted by cub1971  Hi Guys.
I am thinking of getting vista home premium for my system in my sig. Should I get the 32bit or 64bit?
Cheers
Matt | 64bit because of the processor Quote: |
The AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ is the cheapest Toledo core dual core 64 bit CPU.
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04-19-2007, 10:03 PM
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Junior Techie Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 95
| Re: Vista Home Premium 32bit or 64bit
Thanks Peter for the speedy reply. Is there going to be any increased software/driver incompatibilities for 64bit more so than 32bit? It not, I'll grab the 64bit version.
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Matt
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04-19-2007, 10:07 PM
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Retired. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles, California Posts: 8,090
| Re: Vista Home Premium 32bit or 64bit
actually there is a restriction, your processor would run better at 64 bit and might not run at 32 bit.
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"The spaces between your fingers were created so that another's could fill them in."
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04-19-2007, 10:11 PM
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Junior Techie Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 95
| Re: Vista Home Premium 32bit or 64bit
Thanks Peter, I'll get the 64bit.
Cheers!
Matt
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04-19-2007, 10:16 PM
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Retired. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles, California Posts: 8,090
| Re: Vista Home Premium 32bit or 64bit
have fun, but i do recommend to stick with Windows XP
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04-19-2007, 10:29 PM
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Junior Techie Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 95
| Re: Vista Home Premium 32bit or 64bit
Yeah I am fighting the urge at the moment, I know I'll have to upgrade sooner or later. 
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04-20-2007, 07:00 AM
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Master Techie Join Date: May 2005 Location: UK Posts: 2,749
| Re: Vista Home Premium 32bit or 64bit
Id get the 32 bit version, drivers and apps may not work under 64bit your processor will work just fine under vista 32bit version. The only problem then is in future if your a gamer and want more ram say 4gigs+ then you will need vista 64bit edition as 32bit only recognises up to 4gigs.
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04-20-2007, 08:00 AM
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Master Techie Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 2,436
| Re: Vista Home Premium 32bit or 64bit
Hello,
I also agree. Since you've got a 64 bit processor you may as well get Vista x64. It has better security features compared with the 32 bit version, when combined with your processor.
It would probably be a wise idea to make sure that there are 64 bit Vista drivers available for all your hardware before you purchase it though.
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04-20-2007, 03:18 PM
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Retired. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles, California Posts: 8,090
| Re: Vista Home Premium 32bit or 64bit
Thats +2 64bit and +1 32bit
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