Upgraded your M860TU from 32-bit to 64-bit?

Hi all! Long time no post!

I'll be sending my baby back soon to get it upgraded from 32-bit Vista to 64-bit Vista, as I have 4GB ram in here and I feel that this will better benefit me.

I was just wondering if there is anybody here with 4GB Ram in their M860TU who has already done this and noticed a difference, large or small.

Have you noticed an increase in your frame rates in games? Or anything else?

Have you been experiencing any issues? Have they been solvable? If so, how easy were they to solve?

What programs do not run easily on 64-bit?

Do you regret upgrading to 64-bit?


Thanks for your time in answering.

 

Why do you need to send it back to have it upgraded, can't you do it yourself?

 

Sorry, I should have clarified... It's going back to have the faulty drive swapped over for a new one, and I thought that I might as well have everything done in one go that I needed doing to it. I would rather put my trust in the hands of the company than in myself. It's a really good company (Kobalt). Knowing me, I'll accidentally do something wrong!

 

I didn't really notice a performance gain. All applications are working correctly. Only problem is that I can't use peripherals with 32-bit drivers. I don't regret it but I'll have to dual-boot Windows XP to get these peripherals working (no workaround like VMWare).

 

Big difference with mem intensive apps.

 

Would Photoshop be one of these?

 

I haven't really got any old peripherals that I use on here, or any that aren't supported with 32 and 64 bit drivers.

Somebody on Steam recently told me that they've noticed an FPS increase in games (sometimes by as much as 15 fps) when they are dual booting their beta version of Windows 7 on a 64-bit platform. So would that increase be more down to it being 64-bit, or the new OS...?

 

Yes

I also don't have any old peripherals that don't have x64 drivers.

I would think it's mainly due to Win7, I also notices a slight boost to framerates in some games going from Vista x64 to Win7 x64

 

Ok here what, time to cut all the BS and the there's no difference stuff I'm hearing around here. Let me give you the gist from a REAL heavy application user perspective.

I was on Vista 64bit, loved it, from Photoshop to Premiere, the entire suite ran fast and efficient, able to handle everything I threw at it. One problem though, it can't capture video from a firewire device, I had to dual boot Vista 32bit for that purpose.

Then I decided to myself, hey, why not go with Vista 32 since it does everything I want it to do? Guess what? Big Mistake. When I'm editing HD video in Premiere, it takes over 6 seconds for anything to become editable if the window comes out of focus and back on again, Vista 64bit, instant!

Photoshop, working on large images, almost the same thing, Vista 32bit takes time to refresh or who knows what over Vista 64, which brings up everything instantly.

After ONE day with Vista 32bit as my main OS, I went right back to dual booting, couldn't stand it. The time lost in Vista 32bit is just too unbearable for me now, especially knowing that I can work much faster in 64bit.


So there you go Gunsmith_cat. It MAKES A HUGE PRODUCTIVE DIFFERENCE!

 

Can't you ask for two partitions, one with each OS? I assume you're paying for a new license for Vista (are you? I'm a Vista licensing noob, not sure you'd even need two licenses), so you'd have both versions. Alternatively you can always ask for Vista 64 and run Vista 32 under Microsoft's Virtual PC application if anything's incompatible (games, a few other things). Sorry about the hard drive.

 

What about if you only have 2Gigs of RAM? Are there any performace gains in using 64-bit over 32-bit?

 

not sure but dont think so.
32bit can see 3.065gb ram while 64bit can see and use 4gb
if your thinking of going the 64bit route id recommend upgrading your ram to 4gb first.

 

Yes I know that, but I was wondering if a 64-bit would address the 2Gigs better that a 32-bit would.

I'll get a 64-bit version of Win7 to see for myself and I will also be upgrading to 4Gigs of RAM after testing the 64-bit with 2Gigs of RAM.