Is it worth moving to 64bit yet

[slypie]

cheers for the heads up, I've bought Vista Ultimate Retail Upgrade as I could get it for £70 and it's meant to have both 32 & 64bit versions on the DVD so I'm happy with that.

[Splash]

Bear in mind that you can't upgrade from 32bit to 64bit...

[Dreaming]

cheers for the heads up, I've bought Vista Ultimate Retail Upgrade as I could get it for £70 and it's meant to have both 32 & 64bit versions on the DVD so I'm happy with that.

Although I'm not sure, some retail packages advertise having both but you have to send off for the second at the 'postal charge' of £15 or something. Not 100% sure though, but it is the case with ordinary retail packages.

[Lucio]

Although I'm not sure, some retail packages advertise having both but you have to send off for the second at the 'postal charge' of £15 or something. Not 100% sure though, but it is the case with ordinary retail packages.

Right, Ultimate Edition comes with both discs so you can try either/or.

The other editions typically ship the 32bit disc and for £15 you can send off for the 64bit to cover the postage costs.

If you buy an OEM edition, you only get whichever one you pay for and are not entitled to upgrade.

[badass]

As an x64 ultimate user I say make sure you have drivers for everything that work with 64 bit vista and expect problems with media centre and Xvid/Divx type videos. Other than that, using 64 Bit Vista means I have no 2GB process memory limitation and I get 700 odd more MB of my 4GB

[directhex]

As an x64 ultimate user I say make sure you have drivers for everything that work with 64 bit vista and expect problems with media centre and Xvid/Divx type videos. Other than that, using 64 Bit Vista means I have no 2GB process memory limitation and I get 700 odd more MB of my 4GB

problems with mpeg4part2? howso?

[ear-lution]

64bit (especially with Vista) is a 100% complete no-brainer.

Anyone installing 32bit Vista is either very short-sighted or has an extremely specific task for the PC to service over its entire lifespan.

Or has specific hardware without 64bit support or uses software that won't work properly under 64bit OS - like Adobe Acrobat Pro for example

[Tizz]

This is something i'm trying to decide, im building a new pc, and i wanted to get 4gig of ram as i do a lot of design work and 3d rendering, so would be nice to have the extra ram there, but if my xp 32 bit isnt gona pick it up... then no point geting 4gb,

so do i go with vista i thought... but i've seen it on my sisters laptop and i do think theres anything special about it, just more annoying crap i don't like , just like windows sp2 which added 20 spamy things i have to disable.

So i was like hmm xp 64bit, but so many people are like well the 64bit os, vista or xp are not without allot of bugs, and i really cant be arsed with programs and stuff not working correctly.. argh so annoying, i realy don't know what to do about it...

Maybe get 2gb for now, and stick with my xp pro 32bit os, once vista has been around long enough for more fixes (year or so) then i'll switch and maybe to the 64bit os version too as it may be more widely supported then by applications... sound about right?

[usxhe190]

the real question is - how come the Vista startup sounds are so similar to Wii sounds?!

[Splash]

This is something i'm trying to decide, im building a new pc, and i wanted to get 4gig of ram as i do a lot of design work and 3d rendering, so would be nice to have the extra ram there, but if my xp 32 bit isnt gona pick it up... then no point geting 4gb,

so do i go with vista i thought... but i've seen it on my sisters laptop and i do think theres anything special about it, just more annoying crap i don't like , just like windows sp2 which added 20 spamy things i have to disable.

So i was like hmm xp 64bit, but so many people are like well the 64bit os, vista or xp are not without allot of bugs, and i really cant be arsed with programs and stuff not working correctly.. argh so annoying, i realy don't know what to do about it...

Maybe get 2gb for now, and stick with my xp pro 32bit os, once vista has been around long enough for more fixes (year or so) then i'll switch and maybe to the 64bit os version too as it may be more widely supported then by applications... sound about right?

XP x64 was just... horrible. If you're going 64 bit (and if you don't have any hardware without drivers, or programs that aren't incompatible - things aren't as bad as you may initially think) then for me Vista is a no brainer. If not, and your 32 bit XP Pro is a retail (not OEM) license then you may well be best of sticking with XP.

[Tizz]

Yeah tahts what i was thinking, i'll use my xp 32bit for now then, and maybe in 2009 if things are a little better i may switch over. i mainly wanted to go 64bit for the 3d aplications i use as they can make nice use of it all (render times etc) but i use a p4 3.0 with a gig of ram to render and cope just fine so i think ita all be good with my new pc im building lol.

Thanks for the replys

[Softix]

The 64bit OS on such a premium piece of hardware was a total waste!. Not only did it not perform , but it was extremely buggy and because of that the server load went up to unresonable hights !.Even a simple P4 was outperforming it and the main reason for that was the difference between 32bit and 64bit OS.

[directhex]

The 64bit OS on such a premium piece of hardware was a total waste!. Not only did it not perform , but it was extremely buggy and because of that the server load went up to unresonable hights !.Even a simple P4 was outperforming it and the main reason for that was the difference between 32bit and 64bit OS.

what an unlikely scenario