Upgraded from x86 to x64

Lordbob75 · 07 Dec 2009

zone23 said:

Wow, this place is very much a great source for useful information, but man, the sarcasm is pretty thick. lol

LOL ya the sarcasm around here is brutal.

Indeed it can be. Stay out of the Chillout Room, and you should be ok.

~Lordbob

roehrle · 07 Dec 2009

I just loaded my VB6 PE that ran on XP. When I tried to load the MSDN it reported that the OS I was using was not compatible. Why did it load the first disk and not the second ?? Could I be running 64 bit without knowing ? I don't remember having to make a choice during set-up. I assume I am running 32 bit

MUff1N · 08 Dec 2009

yanks0826 said:

MUff1N said:

yanks0826 said:

No, there is a change. I am a heavy video editor, while multitasking with other tasks, and the speed that I am experiencing now opposed to when I was running 32-bit, is a HUGE difference. My computer is running much more smoother, slicker, and faster.

And therein lies the reason you are seeing the speed diff & torrentg did mention video editing.

These are the areas it's most noticeable, but for gaming & everyday tasks there's very little diff in speeds.
I've done numerous tests to see for myself as well as real-world apps testing.

The major benefit as everyone already knows is there's basically no memory limits (192 Gbs usable) with W7U x64 were as the x86 system limit is 4Gbs total which includes HW (hardware) memory usage.
That's why most will see that they got 3.325Gbs usable RAM (or there abouts) out of the installed 4 is because the other HW is using the rest.
For complete info on memory limits of all Windows operating systems click this text!

Wow, this place is very much a great source for useful information, but man, the sarcasm is pretty thick. lol

Sorry yanks0826, I meant no disrespect & wasn't trying to be sarcastic (at least I didn't think so)...just informative.

Not all users of W7 are totally tech savy & that is the reason for the way I worded my post.

Yes, this is a very, very good source for info on W7 so stick around & learn some more!!!

How I found this place was Googleing questions on "How to" when I first started working with W7U beta & this site kept coming up in the results with the correct information I needed! So I decided to stay & learn some more & have never stopped learning new stuff with this new OS.

For example...here's one cool plugin I learned about here in the Windows Media Center section of this forum which is Media Browser! I'd never heard about this until this forum!
Extremely cool plugin so check it out...it's in a sticky in that section.