I'm going to have ~$500 soon enough and can't wait to upgrade this damn computer. I went out and bought Windows 7 Home Premium today, and noticed it came with a 32 bit and 64 bit CD, so I figure if I can get good parts at a reasonable price why the hell not go with 64 bit.
I don't need any accessories, keyboard, mouse, monitor, dvd/cd drive, case, or hard drive, and I also probably won't need any more RAM (4 gigs DDR2 Corsair). Willing to go up to $700 if you're making a 64 bit build. All I really want is to be able to play some newer stuff like Just Cause 2 and Bad Company 2, be able to play TF2 without DX 8, and have smoooooth gaming, not necessarily insane FPS. Right now my computer can get decent FPS in most games but they're still choppy as hell.
PS: Every time I come here there are tons of people ready to help, big thank you to all the regulars.
Edit: Now that I think about it I'd rather not have a 64 bit computer, not sure it'd make THAT big a difference in my pricerange and besides accepting more ram I don't know what the difference is :v:
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64 bit.
64 cost the same as 32 bit anyway
Doesn't 64 bit mean just basically able to handle more memory?
64 is future proof.
Pretty much, unless there's some 128 bit break through.
64-bit will last far longer than OP's computer, I can guarantee you that much.
in fact, 32-bit will probably last far longer too
Anyway pretty much any CPU that you can buy today supports 64 bit.
OP, if you're going to use more than 3GB of ram, definitely install the 64 bit OS.
I'm just going to go with 32-bit since it'll probably just be a medium-end computer anyways, next NEXT computer will probably be 64.
There's no reason not to go 64bit if you have the chance to. If you have 4+GB of ram in your computer, a 32bit OS won't be able to use all of it. All 32 bit software will still run normally on it. There's nothing to lose here, really.
Most processors support 64bit now a days so you can always find out if you can make the move to 64bit
I thought 64-bit was incompatible with software that didn't have a specific 64-bit version of it, or was written specifically to support 64-bit? I guess it's safe to assume most software now and more software in the future will support 64-bit but I don't need a hardcore gaming system.
goddamn its not 2006 anymore there are no problems now
^ this
Drivers need to be 64bit, everything else works in 32bit. Since you're buying new hardware, there shouldn't be a problem with getting 64bit drivers.
[QUOTE=OCELOT323;23282043]goddamn its not 2006 anymore there are no problems now[/QUOTE]
I don't think you can run 16 bit software on 64 bit. But why you'd want to run such ancient software now, I don't know.
[QUOTE=cccritical;23281711]I thought 64-bit was incompatible with software that didn't have a specific 64-bit version of it, or was written specifically to support 64-bit? I guess it's safe to assume most software now and more software in the future will support 64-bit but I don't need a hardcore gaming system.[/QUOTE]
What makes having a 64bit OS make it a hardcore gaming OS? Everything under 64 bit will work on 64 bit. Go to the windows website and look it up.
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