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vista 32, windows 7 32, or windows 7 64?

NickTheNewbieNickTheNewbie Registered User regular
edited February 2009 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
My computer crapped out last night so I'm going to do a reformat tonight. These are the three options available to me, and I'm not sure which to go with. What do you guys think?

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Considering only one of those options is currently commercially-available and widely supported, I'd go with that one.

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  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I've got Win7 64 running on my laptop, and there hasn't been any major problems with it. My laptop wasn't really built for playing games though, so I can't really comment on those aspects.

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  • NickTheNewbieNickTheNewbie Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    On another note, I only have 2GB of ram, do i get any benefit at all from 64 bit with that much ram?

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  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Not really, no.

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  • MordrackMordrack Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Dehumanized wrote: »
    Not really, no.
    To clarify, applications with a 64bit binary will perform, in theory, much better as they potentially utilize the CPU more effectively. Performance for 32bit applications would be unaffected.

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  • NickTheNewbieNickTheNewbie Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I just went with vista 32. It's a commecial product, i had the disk, and the 64 bit is useless for me. Thanks for your help guys.

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    CASE CLOSED


    GOOD WORK G&T



    OR SHOULD I SAY GOOD WORK MORDRACK


    AS USUAL

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