64 0r 32bit os
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Yes , X64 is the way to go.
Easy, go 64bit mate. You will lose nothing with most apps and will gain slightly with ones that support 64.
The driver support issues most brought up for a long while since 64 was first rolled out are pretty much gone. Indeed, you will be hard pressed to find a major manufacturer that does not offer 64bit drivers for their hardware made during the last 5 years or so. Moreover, even if older software doesn't like your new OS you can more often then not fool it by running compatibility.
TLDR : you can only gain, go 64.
- Ordokai
The driver support issues most brought up for a long while since 64 was first rolled out are pretty much gone. Indeed, you will be hard pressed to find a major manufacturer that does not offer 64bit drivers for their hardware made during the last 5 years or so. Moreover, even if older software doesn't like your new OS you can more often then not fool it by running compatibility.
TLDR : you can only gain, go 64.
- Ordokai
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You could spend ages researching that. And the fact that many people went from 32bit XP to 64 bit Vista just complicates things even more. Even now, the amount of people who think 'XP only sees 3.5GB but Vista sees the full 4GB' is pretty bad. I would just install the 64bit version and have done with it. Lifes too short to be reading up on something like that. I bet there is the odd game that runs slightly better on a 32bit OS but I reckon it would be an older game that is running at 200+ FPS anyway.
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Just use 64bit. You might have trouble using a 10 year old 160x120 webcam or installing your favourite dot matrix printer but apart from that, it's all good
wouldn't have thought that would be a problem, my 10year old inkjet works fine on win7 64bit.
On topic 64bit the way forward
