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    32 or 64?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by REGAS, Jul 1, 2011.

  1. REGAS

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    So my hard drive in my new 8130 diedcon me . Sager Support is sending me out another drive but says ill have to install the OS myself. Ive looked on the bottom of the case, as well as all through the bios, with no luck finding any markings saying 32 or 64 bit . Is there anyway to figure this out if i dont have a HD or an OS?
     
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  2. firstnomad

    firstnomad Notebook Guru

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    most laptops made in the past 3-5 years besides netbooks have been 64 bit. yours is most certainly 64 bit.
     
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  3. D2 Ultima

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    Pretty much all hardware made after 2004 will support 64 bit OSes. Yours is 64 bit (also called x64). 32 bit is referred to as x86. Installing an OS is easy, don't worry about it. =).
     
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  4. REGAS

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    Oh im in no way worried about installing the OS, I was how ever a bit worried about getting the correct "bit set"? if thats the correct term (32 or 64). when i go to buy a new win 7 disk.
    I was also looking in the sager driver download page and it shows diffrent drivers one for 32 bit and another for 64 bit..
     
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    i'd suggest u install a 64 bit Win 7 if you want to take full advantage of your new 8130...
    the 8130 hardware will support bot the x86 (32 bit) and the x64 (64 bit) OS's..
     
    whiteWasp, Jul 1, 2011
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  6. REGAS

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    Kewl Beanz! thats all i needed to hear... three times.. LOL.
    Hey, Thanks allot you guys for your advice as well as your time.
    Its appretiated
     
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    Sure, and remember to give rep to all those who help you out =3
     
    D2 Ultima, Jul 1, 2011
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  8. Atmosk

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    If you're over 4GB of ram then you'll want to go with 64-bit period otherwise you'll only be using 4GB of it(a little over 3GB for actual use), this is a limitation of 32-bit address space (it's maximum limit).

    I know the issue here was already addressed but I thought I'd add that in for anyone else's curiosity.
     
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    physib Notebook Evangelist

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    I think it's 3.7G in 32bit OS. However, I heard from someone that you can edit the code (forgot from where) and make it support whole 4G RAM?
     
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  10. Anthony@MALIBAL

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    That was true in XP, where you could use a /pae switch on boot and get it to address more than 4GB. That functionality is removed from Windows Vista and up though. 4GB is the hard limit for RAM addressing, and onboard graphics/graphics cards are included in that, so you may only get as little as 2GB addressable system RAM with a card that needs 2GB for itself.

    32 bit doesn't work the same for all OS's though. For example, if you ran a 32 bit Windows Server 2003 OS, you can get up to 24GB of useable RAM.
     
    Anthony@MALIBAL, Jul 1, 2011
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  11. MarkZinger

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    You can actually use a modified x64 kernel to run in an x86 system to support more than the x86 RAM limitation.
     
    MarkZinger, Jul 2, 2011
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  12. Atmosk

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    Of course theres ways to use that additional ram but they're all kludges, even PAE is a kludge (which is how any 32-Bit Windows addresses more than 4GB of ram, even the server versions).

    It all comes down to practicality, it's not practical nor the best performance to monkey additional address space onto 32-Bit, if you want to use your modern hardware to it's extent run 64-Bit.
     
    Atmosk, Jul 2, 2011
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