testa12 said:
FatRakoon, thanks for taking the time to benchmark this stuff.
I'll eat my hat for my earlier comments that 32bit was faster
The reason was that I had benchmarked my XP system back in 2005 when x64 first came out - most probably the drivers available at the time were not up to scratch.
For my own purposes, is it just AMD processors that dont need to emulate the 64bit commands? Do the newer Intel procs not offer this functionality?
So if this is the case there will be no software OR hardware emulation - bizarre.
Would anyone be interested in seeing a Vista x86 vs x64 benchmark?
Thats cool mate... Did it for myself as much as anyone else.
Dotn eat the hat... Artificial dyes contain arsenic... LOL
Seriously mate. My first ever play with XP64 was to download the trial from MS... At the time, my only 64Bit CPU was the Winchester 3200, and funniy enough, the Neo2 Mobo that I am doing those tests on right now too! and I installed it to a Maxtor 40GB Drive and a few thigns didnt work...
1 - The Modem... BT Voyager 100 ( or was it a 105? )
2 - The Printer ( Epson C42 )
3 - The IDE Card, although I only used the card with my Apps and Media Disks, and so the other drives connected to the Mobo were fine
Of course at the time, not being able to access the internet due to the Modem drivers, I had alos failed to get the drivers for the IDE/Printer too!
Anyway, fom the playing about I did do, I thought that XP64 was way quicker than XP32 and I immediately ordered a copy.
When it came, I was a lot less imprssed with it... Its as if they tweaked the trial version but then bloated the full finished article... Im sure they did because I have still got the trial, and I did compare it a little against the full package on my DFI LanParty & Newcastle 3000 and thath too also felt better with the trial version? - Im sure the trial version will activate as full actually if I used the license from the full.. Hmmm... I'll give that a go I think. I just wonder...
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Yes, the Intels are doing the same as the AMD... Because they are ripping off the AMD instruction set.
No software or hardware Emulation.
Well, no, there is no need... They way Vista and the programs designed for it work, is that if you are running x64 thn it will use the 64Bit optimized code, and if its 32bit then it will use 32Bit code, so the program will run optmised for whichever your using 32 or 64bit
I think?