A few Win7 32bit challenges

[KG26_Alpha]

Google 64bit v 32bit

I could post a whole tech thing here but its easy to find your own way

[whatnot]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

Google 64bit v 32bit

I could post a whole tech thing here but its easy to find your own way

Did some googling on this and the only advantage I can find is the ability to allocate more memory and on the downside there were the compatibility issues on drivers and performance impact on some not optimized sw.

Since I have only 4 gigs I'd get only the downside of the comparisons I guess?

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by whatnot

Since I have only 4 gigs I'd get only the downside of the comparisons I guess?

No, you'd get the whole 4 gigs, as opposed to the 4 gigs minus the memory on your video card and any other memory mapped in your computer that isn't in the actual 4 gigs of RAM. You typically only get to use something like 3.2 gigs in a computer with a 32bit O/S (with a 512mB video card, with a 1GB card you'd be looking at something like 2.7 gigs of useable RAM, with a smaller capacity video card, you'd have more useable RAM).