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ok im thinking of upgradeing the old pc ??
spec
running 32 bit vista
4 gig mem
4 different hard drives 2 sata
nivida 8600 gt card
cpu amd 64 x2 dual core 4400+ 2.8ghz


Now someone told me i would be best upgrading to windows 7 to get full bennefit of 64 bit ??? is that right ??
or do i just start again !!!
 
thats not a bad spec.. depends what you want it to do and how much money you want to throw at it..

you will be losing about 700mb of your 4gb running 32bit.

also you cant upgrade from 32bit to 64bit, you have to format and install from scratch.
 
neil_g said:
thats not a bad spec.. depends what you want it to do and how much money you want to throw at it..

you will be losing about 700mb of your 4gb running 32bit.

also you cant upgrade from 32bit to 64bit, you have to format and install from scratch.
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well i dont mide re formatting i have plenty of space to back up everything :thumbs:thank
 
Did the same myself just bfore xmas on my office pc's - have a 64 and a 32bit Win 7 Pro now. Upgraded from XP pro (never did Vista... pants!!) and the preformance is great.

However, the 64 bit machine does have an 8 core i7 - needs it to work well - don't know what it would be like with an AMD 2 core. The other 32bit machine has quad core i5.

No point putting more than 4gb on a 32bit system. If you want all your RAM or more later go 64.. but note that games don't do well on 64bit systems!

Either way, format and start from scratch - don't go down the 'upgrade' route.

Enjoy.
 
Boney Boy said:
However, the 64 bit machine does have an 8 core i7 - needs it to work well - don't know what it would be like with an AMD 2 core. The other 32bit machine has quad core i5.
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What processor do you have? According to the roadmap, Intel haven't released the 8-core yet. If it is just a 4 core with hyperthreading, then you might not see much real difference between that and a proper dual core AMD chip (depending on model)

To the OP.
A 32bit operation, strictly cannot access greater than 2GB. However, if you have more than 2GB, the operating system/bios can use a mode called, Physical Address Expansion, which allows it to show a particular 2GB selection to the 32GB program. This means that in reality, you might be able to use 3GB of memory on your 4GB machine, but each program itself will be limited to a 2GB chunk. So if you have large pictures/documents open, your programs might be having to use paging etc. to get all of their work done.
PAE slows an instruction down marginally.
Moving to a 64bit OS, means that the OS can natively access a much larger memory space (not currently limiting in home computing).
However, if you are running a 32bit program, it is still limited to the 2GB area of memory (but the PAE should in theory be slightly faster).
 
Boney Boy said:
but note that games don't do well on 64bit systems!
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eeeeeeeeee say what ?? who told you that ??

almost from day one when win7 came out I run 64bit version of it and never ever had problems with it
 
Works great much more better than XP or Vista. I can suggest - don't do any upgrading simply install a clean W7 64bit installation.


It has a 32bit operating system compatibility that means every single one program that works only on 32bit system will work on 64bit system.

And it is compatible with old programs and games. So even DIABLO 2 will work on W7.

And there is no FPS drops like on Vista it runs the same as XP + W7 is more stable so no worry.

P.s.

32bit systems work with max 3.2 gb ram ( I use on my lappy 3gb rams without any "Physical Address Expansion"
64bit system don't need any 242141 core processors!!! :bang: It will work great even on P4.


p.s.s.

I still can't understand people who are sitting on Vista or XP. :cuckoo:


I hope this helps.
 
opps.. looks like i've been feed a porkie! :eek: I stand corrected :bonk:
 
redondo said:
...........I still can't understand people who are sitting on Vista or XP. :cuckoo:.....
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I built my wife a new computer for her Xmas with Win7 64bit, OK it starts up and shuts down in a trice, compared to my machine using XP 64bit.

Otherwise, any speed difference is down to the components, based on my experience with lots of systems using XP.

In the real world, there just isn't much difference in speed,despite all the threading theory, and certainly none in stability.
 
to be honest although very good id rate xp 64bit at the bottom of the pile for stability (granted caused by shocking drivers), then vista (even with its reputation for naff drivers) then 7.
 
neil_g said:
to be honest although very good id rate xp 64bit at the bottom of the pile for stability (granted caused by shocking drivers), then vista (even with its reputation for naff drivers) then 7.
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....but once the drivers are OK.........

................it's ticketty boo!
 
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