memory leak problems,at least i think so

Zen00 said:

That works for me then, thanks. Was x86 the old 32-bit thing?

Yep 86 as in 386, 486, etc

Thanks guys, that kinda confused me. I've not run into it before, this is my first 64-bit machine.

there are some downsides to having 64bits like what i noticed is more disk activity,i would wanna get a 10.000 rpm one along with more ram,even tough my hardisk is prob better than some old "faster" hardisks around

hectic1 said:

there are some downsides to having 64bits like what i noticed is more disk activity,i would wanna get a 10.000 rpm one along with more ram,even tough my hardisk is prob better than some old "faster" hardisks around

While 64 bit does seem to do more disk activity it really isn't. In fact if you have enough ram you can virtually elimintate the page file

i don't mean the pagefile tough it's moving larger chunks of data supperfetch or whatever it was called would make it slower,it's pretty cool that u can remove ur pagefile but that's if you have a lot of ram,like 6-8gb not 4 most pple don't have more than 4gb,or some buy cheap ass ram,thinking it's gonna make their pc faster and i can smoke their ass with 2gb
oh and on win 7 things are a bit diff than vista or xp,it doesn't use double the ram on 64bit apps,don't know how but mem usage is just alittle bigger

Here's a question about RAM usage. Whenever I look at my performance monitor, it shows me using a little less than a gig of RAM at any given time. So, I have 4gb of RAM, what can I do with all that extra RAM that's not being used?

Zen00 said:

Here's a question about RAM usage. Whenever I look at my performance monitor, it shows me using a little less than a gig of RAM at any given time. So, I have 4gb of RAM, what can I do with all that extra RAM that's not being used?

Ram usage depends greatly on the application that is running. Some applications will use all your Ram others only need a little. Video editing or transcoding type of work will use all you have or can even use 8GB or more. Certain games and other apps don't use as much but still benifit from having the 3GB available when they are running.

That extra Ram saves your applications and programs from having to access the harddrive to retreive instructions over and over again. It's much faster to get the instructions from the Ram rather than having your system access the harddrive all the time.

Zen00 said:

Here's a question about RAM usage. Whenever I look at my performance monitor, it shows me using a little less than a gig of RAM at any given time. So, I have 4gb of RAM, what can I do with all that extra RAM that's not being used?

Zen

Great question every one wants to know how to use less, and rightly you want to use more. You could play games, open double the apps, donate cpu cycles to some distributed computing app, or whatever you like

hectic1 said:

i don't mean the pagefile tough it's moving larger chunks of data supperfetch or whatever it was called would make it slower,it's pretty cool that u can remove ur pagefile but that's if you have a lot of ram,like 6-8gb not 4 most pple don't have more than 4gb,or some buy cheap ass ram,thinking it's gonna make their pc faster and i can smoke their ass with 2gb
oh and on win 7 things are a bit diff than vista or xp,it doesn't use double the ram on 64bit apps,don't know how but mem usage is just alittle bigger

Where I agree that cheap Ram is hardly worth buying using 4GB can speed up many programs and make life much easier on you. You ain't smokin me with your 2GB Ram LOL.

As for the advantages of using a 64 bit OP system. 64-bit deals with how your computer works with the data it is given, called words.

Words (which are composed of a piece of data, instructions to manipulate that data or both) are the key to computing. As such, the size of word that a computer's system allows can greatly alter how quickly it can process data and how accurate that data is - the larger the word, the more information that can be passed through a processor in every clock cycle, or the more transformations that can be performed on that data.