Windows Vista 32Bit Or 64Bit

Jay123

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Hi guys, Here is my specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
Asus P5W Mobo
Geil 2gb 6400 800Mhz
Western Digital Raptor 74gb
8800GtS 640Mb

Which is best for my machine ? 32Bit or the famous 64Bit Vista ?

Thank You People

Jay !
 
You probably don't want to hear it - but assuming you like gaming (and judging by your rig you do) - I'd stick with XP for the time being.
 
My thoughts on Vista are the same, I'm waiting for the service pack before I even think about upgrading to the new OS because of the compatibility issues and bugs that remain. That said, if you cannot wait and definately want to move to Vista, the 64-bit edition definately with that CPU :)
 
Hi, Yer im a gamer, Im on vista 32bit on another machine and wanting to upgrade my xp. The drivers are'nt brillaint at the moment for vista for my 8800 thats why xp is still on my machine.

But you recommend 64Bit?


Thanks


Jason
 
I've got Vista 64-bit on my new machine and have had pretty much no problems with it. All the drivers were fine and most programs installed fine. Only two things I had problems with were Asus Probe II (Crap program anyway :p) and the GIMP 2 :( Also, I built a machine a week ago with a Sempron 64 3000+, 1GB RAM, VIA Chipsets (Before anyone asks, it was a super-budget machine :o) which I also put Vista 64-bit Home Premium on and to my amazement, the supplied 32-bit drivers worked perfectly!
 
Just to add my tuppence.
I've had Vista Home Premium 64 up and running for about 2 or 3 weeks now but I'm going back to good old XP Pro just as soon as I get a couple of hours free.
It looks as though some people have had a trouble free ride with Vista but I've had numerous driver issues.
No XFire, iTunes and ill behaved BF2 are enough incentive to roll back!

Will miss the media centre though!
 
Hi Again, Yeh i love vista to bits, havent had a problem yet. Thats why i want to upgrade and plus i might think about another 2gb in the meantime.

Jason
 
Jay123 said:
Hi guys, Here is my specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
Asus P5W Mobo
Geil 2gb 6400 800Mhz
Western Digital Raptor 74gb
8800GtS 640Mb

Which is best for my machine ? 32Bit or the famous 64Bit Vista ?

Thank You People

Jay !
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Windows XP.
 
Don't bother with 4GB RAM- totally pointless at the moment. You'd be spending a lot of money for something you just wouldn't notice- spend it on a nice keyboard or mouse if you don't already have one :)

EDIT: As for Vista- go for it (64-bit) :D Drivers will get better soon although as of yet I haven't had any problems :cool:
 
Also running Vista Home Premium 64 bit for the last couple weeks and not had any serious problems. The odd dodgy codec etc. BF2 only crashed on me once, before I patched it.

But I guess it depends on your hardware, driver availablility, etc.
 
Hi Guys, Thank you for your replys;

Right, Crysis is out end of the month, Now seems as i have a direct x 10 card and the game is a direct x 10 platform.

Isnt Vista going to run the game a lot better than in windows xp ?

Thanks Chaps !
 
mdixson said:
yeah XP will make Crysis a DX9c only game; if you want DX10 it has to be vista...
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And in terms of 32 vs 64 bit, the Crysis Devs reported a 10-15% performance increase per thread in x64.
 
Hi Guys !

Thats very interestin about 64bit works faster , Well Dur Yea .

So then? Whos getting crysis ?? :P I got ants in my pants

Jay !
 
I built a shuttle over the weekend with Vista 64 bit Home Premium and its great - its no gaming machine (only a 7300GS) but otherwise its a cracker

Probably a stupid question, but is there any difference between using Media player within Vista desktop to play a dvd or mp3's and going through the Media Centre front end?

Ive also noticed a 2 quirks within vista version of MP:

1) When selecting "open" file and it opens to the last selection, I certainly cant click directly on any of the file/folder path that you can at any other time to move back a folder layer

2) When you use File open and select a group of tracks and select play from right click menu - the file open box disappear as it ususally does after tracks start playing, it just sits there slightly faded until you actually "close"
 
FrankJH said:
I built a shuttle over the weekend with Vista 64 bit Home Premium and its great - its no gaming machine (only a 7300GS) but otherwise its a cracker

Probably a stupid question, but is there any difference between using Media player within Vista desktop to play a dvd or mp3's and going through the Media Centre front end?
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Yes, they look different.

That aside, there is a subtle difference in x64 - Media Center is x64, and the default Media Player is x86. This means that the codecs you install for Media Player aren't automatically installed for Media Center - you need some x64 codecs.

VistaCodecPackage released an x64 addon.
 
csmager said:
Yes, they look different.

That aside, there is a subtle difference in x64 - Media Center is x64, and the default Media Player is x86. This means that the codecs you install for Media Player aren't automatically installed for Media Center - you need some x64 codecs.

VistaCodecPackage released an x64 addon.
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So you are telling me that a core part of Vista 64 is an identical copy to what I would get buying Vista 32?

Talk about MS slacking off again, surely if you buy a piece of software like this everything on the disk should be of the same code base (ie 64 bit) , is there a lot of the 64 version thats running 32-bit inbuilt applications?
 
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