7 May 2007 at 00:30 #1 FrannoBaz FrannoBaz Suspended Joined 4 Apr 2007 Posts 1,796 Whats the difference between x32, x64 and x86 Vista? Sorry if i have posted this in the wrong forum... :$
Whats the difference between x32, x64 and x86 Vista? Sorry if i have posted this in the wrong forum... :$
7 May 2007 at 00:36 #2 Jay123 Jay123 Suspended Joined 1 Sep 2006 Posts 441 FrannoBaz said: Whats the difference between x32, x64 and x86 Vista? Sorry if i have posted this in the wrong forum... :$ Click to expand... X86 Is 32bit Windows And x64 Is 64bit Difference between the 32 and 64 bit is: 64: 4GB Support And Better Support For Dual Cores 32: Supports 3Gb Max , And Thats It!
FrannoBaz said: Whats the difference between x32, x64 and x86 Vista? Sorry if i have posted this in the wrong forum... :$ Click to expand... X86 Is 32bit Windows And x64 Is 64bit Difference between the 32 and 64 bit is: 64: 4GB Support And Better Support For Dual Cores 32: Supports 3Gb Max , And Thats It!
7 May 2007 at 01:41 #3 RaiderX RaiderX Soldato Joined 18 Feb 2007 Posts 3,159 Location Wirral also 64-bit supports both 64-bit and 32-bit apps, 32-bit supports only 32-bit apps
7 May 2007 at 02:00 #4 Jimmy1983 Jimmy1983 Soldato Joined 1 Mar 2007 Posts 4,795 Location Portsmouth Jay123 said: X86 Is 32bit Click to expand... why not just stick to 32 and 64 then?
7 May 2007 at 02:01 #5 RaiderX RaiderX Soldato Joined 18 Feb 2007 Posts 3,159 Location Wirral Jimmy1983 said: why not just stick to 32 and 64 then? Click to expand... to confuse people
7 May 2007 at 03:15 #6 simonnance simonnance Associate Joined 20 Sep 2006 Posts 1,418 Location Southampton, England because X86 has been around since LONG before we had 64-bit processors.
7 May 2007 at 03:30 #7 ps3ud0 ps3ud0 Caporegime Joined 27 Sep 2004 Posts 27,676 Location Luton ;) wrong thread... ps3ud0 Last edited: 7 May 2007
7 May 2007 at 05:08 #8 PinkFloyd PinkFloyd Soldato Joined 21 Sep 2005 Posts 14,933 Location Bradley Stoke, Bristol X86 is the type of architecture processers use iirc. Vista can run on any processer with this arcitecture.
X86 is the type of architecture processers use iirc. Vista can run on any processer with this arcitecture.
7 May 2007 at 11:33 #9 csmager csmager Soldato Joined 30 Dec 2003 Posts 5,770 Location London Jimmy1983 said: why not just stick to 32 and 64 then? Click to expand... Their full names are x86 and x86-64. The latter being the same architecture with 64-bit extensions.
Jimmy1983 said: why not just stick to 32 and 64 then? Click to expand... Their full names are x86 and x86-64. The latter being the same architecture with 64-bit extensions.
