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what do you need more than 3.5 gigs of RAM for? I've never needed that much and I do heavy gaming. A 64-bit processor will run 32-bit code just fine.
what do you need more than 3.5 gigs of RAM for? I've never needed that much and I do heavy gaming. A 64-bit processor will run 32-bit code just fine.
I am sure there is nothing wrong with it. I am just stating that I will not beable to use more then 3.5 gigs of Ram and use the 64bit side of my processor.
You can if you dual-boot 32 and 64-bit like I do. I still use 32-bit XP 99% of the time anyways.
I do have a dual boot of XP x86 and x64 and use the x86 99% of the time. I am just trying to find out some info on Windows 7 to see if some of the barriers that held back XP x86 was the same in Windows 7 x86.
Thank you for your time. I will keep looking to see what I can find out.
mttomb
MCP,
yeah, the problem is the same. 32-bit drivers are no good for 64-bit. If you have hardware that isn't 64-bit capable, stick with 32-bit. Only other choice is to buy new hardware, which I'm sure the company that stopped supporting your current hardware will just love.
I know it runs fine, but I swear that my system would be faster with more RAM that I am not using. I am running:
EVGA x58 Motherboard
2.33 GHz Quad 1066 FSB
2.75 GB of RAM that it finds
1 TARA hard drive with the XP x86 version having 400gig partion with 378 gigs free
and it sometimes takes a long time to load up the simplest programs. Long time is 2 to 3 mins to load up a 31 MB program on another drive. Most of the time it will take 5 to 10 seconds.
I have a system here with a EVGA mainboard, 1.5 gigs of RAM. I did many benchmarks between XP 32-bit and Win7 64-bit on single core and dual core processors and XP 32-bit was the fastest a great majority of the time.
When I upgraded to the Quad I didn't do any benchmarks and now I wish I did because I swear it runs the same speed as my dual core did with the same OS system and better FSB.
This particular EVGA motherboard is an older nForce SLI.
You're not going to notice much difference between 2 core and 4 core until you start using applications that make efficient use of all the cores.