| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 96909 | 2009-01-28 12:50:00 | 6GB memory on Vista Ultimate 32bit? | acheron4778 (12609) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 742782 | 2009-01-28 12:50:00 | I've been reading about this for the past 30 mins and couldn't find anything conclusive. I will soon be getting an i7 on an Asus P6T Deluxe with 6GB (3x2) of DDR3-1600 memory, and I was planning on getting Vista Ultimate 32bit. Is that gonna work? | acheron4778 (12609) | ||
| 742783 | 2009-01-28 12:55:00 | Yeah, it will work but you'll only get anywhere between 3 - 3.75GB of the memory. So getting that memory would be a waste if you go for 32bit. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 742784 | 2009-01-28 13:43:00 | I was afraid of that. Are the horror stories about driver issues and poor gaming performance on 64bit true or just fabrications by the anti-ms macwhore crowd? | acheron4778 (12609) | ||
| 742785 | 2009-01-28 18:47:00 | I was afraid of that. Are the horror stories about driver issues and poor gaming performance on 64bit true or just fabrications by the anti-ms macwhore crowd? Those were mainly XP64 horror stories, and true at the time. Vista 64bit is usually fine driver-wise, although there are a few missing. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 742786 | 2009-01-28 19:01:00 | Yeah i was fearful of the driver issues with vista 64 but i have been using it for nearly 6 months now and it is great, so fast, and i am only running a Pentium D 3.2! with 2 Gb ram. Would love to play with a i7 and x64, whew :drool |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 742787 | 2009-01-28 19:06:00 | simple realy. If you want to use 6 mb ram, then get 64 bit o/s. If you just want to fill the holes then 32 bit will do. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 742788 | 2009-01-28 19:18:00 | I use Vista 64bit, while some older games do not run (due to the 64bit not driver issues) the rest are fine. Also I have never had a problem finding the right drivers for my hardware. 64bit is the way to go imo. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 742789 | 2009-01-28 19:18:00 | That would be silly using 32bit. Use 64bit. Gaming is fine on it. Its Vista that gets the horror stories but you can tweak it. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 742790 | 2009-01-28 19:44:00 | Vista x64 w\ more than 4Gb is way faster than Vista x86. Unless you have 16bit programs, you shouldn't have many issues at all, if fact most hardware review sites do all their testing of hardware with Vx64 because of the large memory on today graphics cards with SLI\Xfire etc. Edit - if you can afford a new PC as spec'd above, then you shouldn't be using legacy peripherals which are the biggest problems. If new hardware doesn't have drivers for Vista x64, then I wouldn't be buying their products. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 742791 | 2009-01-28 19:59:00 | I have Vista and 7 64-bit. I haven't had any problems with it - but make sure you have drivers for every device. I dual-boot with Windows XP 32 bit, in case a program doesn't work properly on 64 bit. |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 1 2 3 | |||||