64 bit

Should I get 64 bit operating system?

 

Should I get a puppy?

No one here can tell you what works for you and your situation my good friend. Do some reading and searching as to what the advantages and potential advantages are and make up a decision that you feel works for you.

Then you can come back and ask a proper question that we can answer.

 

It depends on your system, but assuming your system supports it, most of the time the answer will be yes.

 

Nope, get a kitten instead.

 

Yes if you plan to use vista or an updated linux distro.

 

Get Opera first.

 

Search the forum, there are literally hundreds of threads asking the same question.

 

If you want to be secured for the future, get 64 bit.

 

One of the major advantages to using 64bit is that you can utilize more than 3.2 GB of RAM that 32bit is limited to. I think 64bit will allow up to 6.something GB

 

You're a little off. The limit for 64-bit addressability is 16 exabytes, or 16 million terabytes, or 16 billion gigabytes.

But you were close.

(Artificial limits - 8 GB for Vista Home Basic, 16 GB for Premium, 128 GB for Business and Ultimate).

 

Yes, especially if you want 4Gig + ram.

 

Ya, seems I was a little bit off No idea I was that far off. Too bad I don't remember where I saw the 6.something limit. Oh well.

 

Whats the point if you're not using 3500MB of RAM all the time? Any practical and noticeable speed increase?

& I believe the 6GB you've heard, Luthi3n, is set by certain manufacturers and chipset limits.

 

Some chipsets in laptops limit them to around 6gbs of ram. Could this be what you were thinking of? Checks desktop ram...yup all 8gbs there

 

Dude, I need more ram!

 

That might have been it. Not sure what I was thinking because my system will allow up to 8GB. So I really have no idea where I got that idea lol.

 

Of my experience. If your just going to add 4 gigs of ram and use vista 32 bit works since vista 32 bit reads it. Unless you are planning to add more ram and your mother board supports it can be nice to move to 64 bit.

 

Vista 32 will recognize that the memory is there, but not use all 4 GB.

 

^ are you serious i though it would read all 4 gb since it shows it so than how much does vista really read in 32 bit? Does it read the same as xp 3.25? I have xp right now and thats all it reads.

 

Whatever that specific system uses in XP is what Vista 32 will use. This number will vary between 2.5 and 3.5GB depending on the configuration of the system. Vista 32 has handlers for having more hardware than address space, so Vista 32 won't have problems with over 3GB of RAM. XP however, can.

 

To find out how much RAM Vista can make use of on your system, press shift-ctrl-Esc to open up Task Manager, then go to the Performance tab, and look at "Physical Memory (MB) > Total".

 

Ohnoes, I'm missing 2 megabytes!!1

 

I just wanted to vertify it. Isnt it reading 3.3 gb of ram?

if so that makes me want to take a stick and maybe sell it not using all the stick >.<

 

Yeah it's about 3.25 gb (3325/1024).

btw you can also see it by pressing Windows key > type "System Information" > Total Physical Memory