Windows 7 x86 vs x64

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Has anyone installed both and seen the differences first hand?
 
If a person has 4GB of Ram what does it matter? 64bit just makes more sense these days.
 
I'm going 64 bit next. There is no good reason to stay with 32 bit any longer.
 
Aqua_lung said:
If a person has 4GB of Ram what does it matter? 64bit just makes more sense these days.
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actually there is a difference; 32bit os can't address 4gig of ram and more, where 64bit can.
 
Necuno said:
actually there is a difference; 32bit os can't address 4gig of ram and more, where 64bit can.
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That's what I meant, I just never explained myself fully.
When I said 64 bit makes more sense I meant to say because you can address more ram so why worry about 32 bit, it's pointless to care about 32 bit with ram being so cheap.
 
I won't even try the 32bit edition. Judging by the performance diffirence between vista 32 and 64 bit editions, I won't even try Windows 7 32bit. I got a proper 64 machine with 6GB memory, so why waste time with a 32bit system?
 
DeFunct said:
Elaborate. Can certain hardware refuse 64-bit software?
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Your CPU and motherboard can be incompatible with 64 bit. If you have dual core processor though or amd64.... you don't need to worry I think. 64 bit processors have been standard for a while now, the OS makers are just beginning to really catch up. It's a bit disappointing that they are allowing the next generation to OS to even work with 32 bit processors....
 
cerebus said:
Your CPU and motherboard can be incompatible with 64 bit. If you have dual core processor though or amd64.... you don't need to worry I think. 64 bit processors have been standard for a while now, the OS makers are just beginning to really catch up. It's a bit disappointing that they are allowing the next generation to OS to even work with 32 bit processors....
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Okay, cool. I heard that 64 bit is much faster and support much more RAM and seeing that I want about 6GB of RAM, I wanted to buy Windows 7 64-bit, which I will do. I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+, so that's fine, and my motherboard (Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4) does say it supports up to 16GB RAM so it must support 64 bit.
 
the elitists say that the 64 bit version of vista is the only one worth using.
 
DeFunct said:
I wanted to buy Windows 7 64-bit
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by the time windows7 is available for actual sale it will be called something else, just like vista was known as longhorn . . .

apart from that, you will probably have upgraded your hardware as well ;)
 
Lord Fubar said:
by the time windows7 is available for actual sale it will be called something else, just like vista was known as longhorn . . .

apart from that, you will probably have upgraded your hardware as well ;)
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They confirmed that it will DEFINITELY be called Windows 7.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10064971-56.html

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/14/tech-windows.html

I have never used a 64-bit OS, so this will be a first of many for me. But at least I will be able to get my 6GB RAM.
 
I've just moved to vista 64 from vista X86, and honestly haven't seen a difference, although that may be because I've only got a 2.8Ghz Core2 and 2 gigs of RAM. Won't be upgrading though until W7 comes out and is declared mostly stable.
 
ClericZA said:
I've just moved to vista 64 from vista X86, and honestly haven't seen a difference, although that may be because I've only got a 2.8Ghz Core2 and 2 gigs of RAM. Won't be upgrading though until W7 comes out and is declared mostly stable.
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I did the same, but saw a difference when going to 4GB ram. Especially browsing huge directories, and alt-tabbing out of games.
 
well i swear by 64, because i have than the norm ram and its allot better for design and rendering period. So thats why i obviously will get win7 64 and not the 32 its just pointless for me in that regard.
 
x64 all the way. I ran vista x86 for 6 months then switched to x64 and it was the more stable os by a long long way.
 
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