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Now Dil you have me at an disadvantage here being a (I think so) fairly good health professional but not so hot on computer workings. I have gathered over the last week that memory is not confined to the RAM sticks, but also the ?cache inbult mobo memory etc etc and their controllers ( I thought only HDD's had these ). As for the chipset if I knew what I was looking for I could tell you what I have got.
My desktop machine is a very basic prebuilt from a company here in Australia and my laptop a Toshiba Sat L550 so might have to have scratch around the system details to find out eh?
I agree with Lordbob. Drivers used to be a major issue, but not so much anymore, especially on newer computers. Also, the number of 64-bit programs is increasing constantly. Recently I decided to try to switch to all 64-bit software and there were only two programs I couldn't find a sutable alternative to. IZarc and FormatFactory. There are 64-bit alternatives, but familarity with those two kept me from switching. Besides, 32-bit programs work on 64-bit systems just fine. There is no reason not to use a 64-bit OS these days.
Very well put. For example, the nForce 4 chipset has a limit of 4GB, so although it can run a 64 bit OS, there is no memory advantage...when one fits the max memory to hardware, one cannot see/use the full amount. If I fit the full 16GB in my current motherboard, I will only be able to use about 15.25-15.50.
Dil
No, we will still have the advantage of 64bit. One of them is the capability of a process to have "User-mode virtual address space" to whatever your RAM size (we'll need some time before we can put 7/8TB of RAM in our home desktop machines). We still inherit all of 64bit security features... And many other features. The primary reason to use 64bit OS is indeed "Max RAM size", but there are many important features besides "Max RAM size".
zzz2496
greeaaaaattt,,,,
my friends ever ask me what the differences are??
some of them force their PC to use 64 bit whereas their PC cant competible using that,,