4 gig of memory

[pegasus1]

Vista 32 is capped to "seeing" 3.2Gb of RAM. More than that just doesn't show up.

Complete rubbish, i recently built a Vista 32bit system with 2x2gigs and it see's 3.5gig ram, this system using a 2180 at 3.3ghz is faster than a 6300 at the same speed but on 32bit XP with 2x1gig ram.

Read the article on here somewhere showing that a 32bit Vista with 4gig ram is faster than 64bit Vista.

 

[londonbairn]

Complete rubbish, i recently built a Vista 32bit system with 2x2gigs and it see's 3.5gig ram, this system using a 2180 at 3.3ghz is faster than a 6300 at the same speed but on 32bit XP with 2x1gig ram.

Read the article on here somewhere showing that a 32bit Vista with 4gig ram is faster than 64bit Vista.

I read before x64 is faster, but I think anyway that people building new machines should use 64bit. The driver support is now really good and I wouldnt be happy buying 4gb RAM only to be able to use 3gb or so of it.

I think a lot of people have a perception that x64 is buggy, unstable etc etc (maybe due to XP64 and the first few months of Vista x64) but I have found it to be the best OS I have used. I use Vista, Leopard and XP on a daily basis, and I would take Vista x64 10/10 times.

The future is x64 anyway, when you start using 6gb, 8gb RAM with 1gb GPUs, then using a 32 bit OS is silly.

 

[pegasus1]

I read before x64 is faster, but I think anyway that people building new machines should use 64bit. The driver support is now really good and I wouldnt be happy buying 4gb RAM only to be able to use 3gb or so of it.

I think a lot of people have a perception that x64 is buggy, unstable etc etc (maybe due to XP64 and the first few months of Vista x64) but I have found it to be the best OS I have used. I use Vista, Leopard and XP on a daily basis, and I would take Vista x64 10/10 times.

The future is x64 anyway, when you start using 6gb, 8gb RAM with 1gb GPUs, then using a 32 bit OS is silly.

True, 64bit OS's come into their own when using more than 4 gig of ram but with the exception of video/photo Editing software, what makes use of that much ram (or a 64 bit OS for that matter). Somebody said that 64 bit computing was the future when the A64 first appeared, i think we have a little way to go yet.