Upgrading to 64bit

[Mr Feesh]

I am interested in upgrading to 64bit windows 7, i currently have 32bit.

Current pc Specs
- Intel Core 2duo 6600 2.4ghz
- 2gb of ram
- NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT

The main reason i wish to upgrade is that i am interested in using Adobe Premiere cs5, i currently have cs4 and when editing 720p its very jumpy and full hd is almost impossible. I know that 64bit makes use of more than 4gb of ram.
Will i notice any difference in cs5 with the hd editing? and even in general use with 64bit. or do i have to upgrade my pc specs?

 

[Romito]

add at least 2 more gigs of ram and for full hd you mite wana go to 2.8 core 2duo or 2.5 core 2quad for a better experience.

 

[drukkie]

save yourselve all the drama/driver/compatibility issues and just buy a solid state drive my friend. bump up your ram to 4 GB and your set.
you will not look back. your cpu could also do with a facelift. maybe an i5 or even i7 but it's pricey...

with 64 bit you still have to read that data into memory, the hdd is your bottleneck....with SSD it's like having a machine with 64 or 128 GB Memory.

 

[The_Assimilator]

To answer your original question - no, you won't notice any difference just switching to 64-bit. However, if you upgrade your memory to 4GB, you will need a 64-bit OS to take advantage of the extra RAM.

For video editing you want at least a quad-core and 4GB of memory - since your PC is a bit old I'd recommend doing a full upgrade to an i5 or i7 system. An SSD will also help with streaming video to/from memory, but they are very expensive.

 

[HavocXphere]

An SSD will also help with streaming video to/from memory

How so?

 

[kingrob]

No use to use a 64-bit OS if you dont have at least 4GB RAM.

 

[Mr Feesh]

I realize that to use 64bit effectively you have to have @ least 4gb of ram,
but i heard that premiere cs5 handles hd better than cs4 and you can only install cs5 on a 64bit pc.
so is still worth upgrading to 64bit based solely on the fact that cs5 can handle hd better.

 

[Mr Feesh]

Also i have a copy of 64bit that is installed on my dads computer so its not going to cost me anything to upgrade

 

[bambooozle]

I am interested in upgrading to 64bit windows 7, i currently have 32bit.

Current pc Specs
- Intel Core 2duo 6600 2.4ghz
- 2gb of ram
- NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT

The main reason i wish to upgrade is that i am interested in using Adobe Premiere cs5, i currently have cs4 and when editing 720p its very jumpy and full hd is almost impossible. I know that 64bit makes use of more than 4gb of ram.
Will i notice any difference in cs5 with the hd editing? and even in general use with 64bit. or do i have to upgrade my pc specs?

Your problem will start and not be solved when you upgrade to 64bit.

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and have endless video problems, PC slows down and only a reboot will solve this issue.

this is not an isolated incident, my media centre running Vista Ultimate 64Bit is doing the same thing.

Had a look on the net but all solutions have not worked so far.

Save yourself some hassles and stay with 32bit.

The performance gain is very small if any, only advantage is more Ram.

Update you CPU,GPU and 3GB of memory and you will be fine.

I have 3 GPU's and 6 monitors with a beefy CPU and 8GB of memory my system runs like a dog with 64bit, so my next downgrade will be 32bit as i had no issues with it.

 

[Rashid]

- NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT

If your card doesn't support HD, then full HD will remain impossible until you change it, whether you upgrade your ram and cpu or not

 

[Mr Feesh]

So what nvidia vga do you guys recommend?

I'm planning on getting a machine similar to one of the i'7's or top of the line i5 as advertised. http://www.zones.co.za/ which one do you guys recomend?

 

[Roger.Wilco]

If your card doesn't support HD, then full HD will remain impossible until you change it, whether you upgrade your ram and cpu or not

What am I missing here? How does this card not "support" HD?

 

[Rashid]

What am I missing here? How does this card not "support" HD?

If ....

It will depend on the model of the card and the latest drivers for the GPU. For example when I bought my card it didn't support 3D view, 3 months later I got drivers than enabled it to dispaly 3D view

 

[ponder]

What am I missing here? How does this card not "support" HD?

I think he is incorrectly referring to HD acceleration of x.264 media etc where the processing is offloaded to the GPU. The card however will support HD resolutions just fine.

 

[Abe]

I realize that to use 64bit effectively you have to have @ least 4gb of ram,
but i heard that premiere cs5 handles hd better than cs4 and you can only install cs5 on a 64bit pc.
so is still worth upgrading to 64bit based solely on the fact that cs5 can handle hd better.

There are some advantages with RAM, even when you have less than 4GB. For example, the software can address a 4GB memory mapped file directly in 64 bit windows with 2GB of RAM. That makes the system far faster for processing large chunks of data than the software having to split the data into smaller chunks. On a 32 bit OS with 2GB of RAM, you can't necessarily allocate 1GB of RAM because of other factors such as fragmentation so 64 bit is always better if you have the choice.