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Performance: Win7 32-bit vs 64-bit
Tried a search on this first -- said nothing found ... so here goes ...
Had to build a new Win7 Pro system a month ago due to old system PSU burning up the motherboard. So, built a new system with AMD 1090t 6-core processor and 4GB of 1333 memory. Was a lot of work doing that -- and it works OK.
But having done that, I had all the makings of switching over to 64-bit. So, I installed Win7 Pro 64-bit from scratch and have been installing my apps, one by one.
Also converted the drive access to AHCI in the process.
The plan was to switch over to 64-bit once I was finished to reap the benefits of improved performance.
Problem is ... I don't see any.
Given the same hardware, the same apps, the "real-time" performance experience is the same, whether using 32-bit or 64-bit.
I suspect that purchasing another 4GB of 1333 memory may improve the 64-bit performance -- but I'm hesitant to spend the money since, if it doesn't, I then HAVE to switch over to 64-bit or have an extra 4GB of memory sitting there unusable under 32-bit.
So, is there something I'm missing? I actually thought that 64-bit would be faster performance.