Windows 7 32 bit vs 64 bit

Not very familiar with this....with the 64 bit software, will Office 2007 or a Linksys "G" type router have any problems running?

If not, is 64 bit the way to go?

Thanks

 

Both will work with 64-bit, unimpaired.

 

Ive been using windows 7 64-bit for about a year now, and before that was vista 64-bit.

I haven't come across 1 compatibility issue. I also use office 2007 (&2010) and a linksys router.

No problems with 64-bit at all. If you have 4GB + of ram, go for 64.

 

The vast majority of 32-bit applications run in 64-bit versions of Windows with no issues, and for the applications that do have problems, most have 64-bit versions. So yes, 64-bit is the way to go!

 

Routers are OS independent. They will run perfectly under any operating system, from Windows 3.1 to any Linux to Windows 9.

Microsoft uses a technical which they call WoW (no, not World of Warcraft, but rather Windows on Windows), to ensure 100% support from 32 and 64-bit software. You can see it as 2 Windows in one. You have 64-bit dll's and their 32-bit counterpart for 32-bit Windows, and even duplicated Windows built-in software, in the case a 32-bit software needs to do something special with one of them.

Down side of 64-bit:
- Uses a little bit more memory (memory address' stored in your memory needs to be 64-bit format)
- Consumes more disk space due to the file management holding 64-bit address to data blocks on your HDD/SSD. And because of Windows On Windows. Nothing major
- Drop 16-bit (aka: DOS) applications supports.

Upsides of 64-bit:
- Support up to 16 Exabyte of Memory (or 16 000 000 000 GB) of RAM

- Support for larger than 2 TB HDD's in one dive.
- CPU has access to more operation code to execute instructions faster and more efficient. (obviously you need to run a 64-bit software to use that)
- Longer instructions allows more information to be provided at once from an
instruction which provide increase in performance for demanding tasks (obviously you need to run a 64-bit software to use that)
- Processor can run 32-bit perfectly as when you run a 32-bit software it sets the missing bit as 0's (default), so the processor has no problem executing these software.
- Having a whole OS in 64-bit benefit every process (running programs) on your computer, even 32-bit ones.

You can see that the downside are negligible (RAM amount is no longer a huge issue for most, where every MB saved is critical (unlike the old days where we has 128MB of memory in our system), HDD space is not an issue, it's not the 1-2GB loss, mostly by Windows, that it will affect anymore with a standard HDD), and the upside are very welcomed in today's computer.