• Windows 32bit vs 64bit
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For the last few years i have had 2 Dell Precision workstations (470) standing around the house being used as normal pc's. Until recently one of the pc's motherboards life came to an end. At least i could use the parts of one pc to upgrade the other one. New setup Dell precision 470 motherboard Dual Xeon 3.6ghz (1 to 2 processors the server like motherboard has 2 sockets) 4gb DDR2 600mhz ram. Nvidia Geforce GT 240(512mb version). 15000rpm scsi harddisk used for pagefile. Its not that hard to spot that the flaw in this setup is the ram speed Now the pc has always ran 32 bit windows 7. now to have enough address space for the 4gb of ram + video cart. i have to upgrade to 64bit. Now my ram(speed) is by far the worst part of this pc. Getting a 64bit system would even make the ram work much harder? as the pointers get bigger?. Now my questions is Is it worth it upgrading to 64bit to use the extra 1gb of ram ?
[QUOTE=ColdFusion;27712857]For the last few years i have had 2 Dell Precision workstations (470) standing around the house being used as normal pc's. Until recently one of the pc's motherboards life came to an end. At least i could use the parts of one pc to upgrade the other one. New setup Dell precision 470 motherboard Dual Xeon 3.6ghz (1 to 2 processors the server like motherboard has 2 sockets) 4gb DDR2 600mhz ram. Nvidia Geforce GT 240(512mb version). 15000rpm scsi harddisk used for pagefile. Its not that hard to spot that the flaw in this setup is the ram speed Now the pc has always ran 32 bit windows 7. now to have enough address space for the 4gb of ram + video cart. i have to upgrade to 64bit. Now my ram(speed) is by far the worst part of this pc. Getting a 64bit system would even make the ram work much harder? as the pointers get bigger?. Now my questions is Is it worth it upgrading to 64bit to use the extra 1gb of ram ?[/QUOTE] 64 bit is better anyway. and your cpu might not support a 32 bit os
There really isn't any reason not to switch to the 64 bit version unless you're using old hardware that doesn't work with 64 bit operating systems. That is likely not to be an issue.
[QUOTE=mrpatel;27714919]64 bit is better anyway. and your cpu might not support a 32 bit os[/QUOTE] what Using 64 bit wouldn't really put any more strain on the computer. Switch now and stop worrying until 128 bit windows comes along. An extra gig will most certainly help, but don't really expect a performance increase because of it. Overall experience will improve so it's worth a shot.
What happened to the computer that went bad? You can probably fix it.
[QUOTE=bohb;27725268]What happened to the computer that went bad? You can probably fix it.[/QUOTE] Mobo died of old age. OP as long as your Cpu supports 64 bit, I'd do it. Unless you use 16bit apps still..
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