Do you always post such rubbish?
4GB memory, but 3.25Gb recognised, worth an upgrade to 64bit?
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Do you always post such rubbish?
Talking absolute rubbish.
Ive posted it several times, my rig in sig is so much faster with 4gb in Vista 64than it was with 2gb in XP.
I built a rig with 4gb (3.5gb) and Vista 32 and that beat my machine (2gb & XP32)in video encoding even though the processor was an E2180 running 100mhz slower.
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See this post here.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17907352
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17907352
Not really, I didn't even notice an improvement from 2GB to 3.25GB (both under XP-32bit). Plus 64-bit OSs have to run 32-bit emulation and it just makes them a bit too bloated for my tastes. I didn't enjoy Vista 64-bit at all with 4GB.
Absolutely right!!!! Also Vista doesn't use CPUs as well as XP, so a QX9770 in Vista is the same as a E1200 in XP. Would appreciate if you got your facts right before posting your "insights".
To the OP: get Vista 64bit if you have spare cash, it's a good OS which excellent memory management. Obviously the 0.75Gb additional RAM won't make a paramount difference and will most likely disappear as 64bit application memory usage typically exceeds that of 32bit, but you'll have a modern OS to which you can add additional RAM later on.
I'll be moving from Vista 32bit with 4Gb to Vista 64bit to take advantage of some recently-purchased OCZ 8Gb RAM shortly - look forward to that.
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I currently run vista Ultimate 32bit with 4gb (2 x 2gb) installed. Of course, like everyone else, my system only sees just over 3gb, a fact I was well aware of before buying.
I've had Vista since day 1 and was nervous about previous flakey 64 bit support, but it really does seem to have improved enormously now. I use Lightroom (2.0 now) and Photoshop quite often with heavy, intensive files, and can quite often pretty much eat up 3gb.
I would like to move to Vista 64 bit, but to be honest, as I'm getting by, I've decided to wait until Windows 7 is out, and then make the move to DDR3 on a new platform as well. If I had my decision again though, I'd have started with Vista 64 bit, and put up with a few early niggles on driver support.
I've had Vista since day 1 and was nervous about previous flakey 64 bit support, but it really does seem to have improved enormously now. I use Lightroom (2.0 now) and Photoshop quite often with heavy, intensive files, and can quite often pretty much eat up 3gb.
I would like to move to Vista 64 bit, but to be honest, as I'm getting by, I've decided to wait until Windows 7 is out, and then make the move to DDR3 on a new platform as well. If I had my decision again though, I'd have started with Vista 64 bit, and put up with a few early niggles on driver support.
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in order of best combination
1) XP 32bit - 4GB
2) Vista 64bit - 4GB
3) Vista 32bit - 4GB
3) XP 64 Bit - 4GB
XP with 4GB beats vitsa, and XP 64 bit is got more bugs than a swamp..
However ive recently looked at something called Vista lite, and i plan to go back to vista after ive reduced the install disk to 700MB (yes you can do that).. Also add on countless hacks to be able to modify settings if its possible.
1) XP 32bit - 4GB
2) Vista 64bit - 4GB
3) Vista 32bit - 4GB
3) XP 64 Bit - 4GB
XP with 4GB beats vitsa, and XP 64 bit is got more bugs than a swamp..
However ive recently looked at something called Vista lite, and i plan to go back to vista after ive reduced the install disk to 700MB (yes you can do that).. Also add on countless hacks to be able to modify settings if its possible.
Not in the Music and video encoding tests i ran, I have run XP32, Vista 32 and Vista 64 in different machines with both 2 and 4 gb ram, for me Vista 64 is by far the best overall performer (once tweeked).
Don't agree with that comment at all, I have two machines running it for over 2 yrs and it's a superb O/S. Yes it is badly supported in the driver department, but as long as you research first that your stuff is compatible, it is a superb choice. However it is pointless buying it today, Vista 64-bit is the way to go. I will never upgrade those 2 boxes, they will run XP X64 very happily for the rest of their lives, but for recent boxes I've gone Vista X64.
XP X64 also runs way better on 4GB than Vista does on 8GB...
vista64 is quite nice imo,i've been running it on my main rig over a year now, not a single bsod--better than my sff with xp sp2