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Baine

Baine

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Will a PC that comes with a AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz CPU
use a 64bit Operating system?

And will i need to download 64Bit Graphics drivers etc?


Full Spec
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz CPU
- 1 GB DDR400 PC3200 RAM
- 250GB SATA Hard Drive
- 256MB PCI Express NVidia GeForce 7600GS Graphics Card
- 16x DVD+/-RW +/- DL Drive
- 52-in-1 Flash Memory Card Reader
- Nvidia NForce 4 Motherboard
- 7 USB Ports
- Giga LAN
- 5.1 Realtek Surround Sound
- 17" AOC LM765 LCD Monitor, 12ms Response Rate
- Microsoft Wired Keyboard & Mouse Set
- Windows XP Home
 
Yes, and yes. You will need the right drivers for most things afaik

Edit// Sorry i thought you meant would it ba able to use 64
 
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It will most likely not come with XP64 unless it's specifically stated. 64bit drivers can be rather tricky to find and there really isn't any performance benefit as of yet to using it.
 
As that system comes with XP Home, you will not need 64bit drivers.

It will come set up (ie with drivers and software installed already).
 
Thought so wanted to check also i will be updating the drivers as soon as i get it no need to install 64bit ones then

Question so whats the point of a 64bit processor atm?
 
Baine said:
Thought so wanted to check also i will be updating the drivers as soon as i get it no need to install 64bit ones then

Question so whats the point of a 64bit processor atm?
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Depends on your uses, XP64 can provide performance increases (as can 64bit optimised apps) but driver support for some hardware is an issue.

In any case, the Athlon 64 is still a solid processor and need not be dismissed purely because people dont use 64-bit applications.
 
There's no real point to 64 bit processing ion desktops at the moment, it's the architecture of the chips that makes them such good performers for their time. The only thing 64 bits increases without having to run optimised applications is the amount of addressable memory which is limited to 4096MB on 32 bit chips. This doesn't help at all though if you don't have more than 4gb of ram, which most operating systems wont recognise anyway :p
 
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