>Yes so ..umm..ahh...on another note... :-) > >my 30 day trial period of Vista 32 bit is expiring. I'm looking to >purchase through the online Windows Marketplace. > >Has anyone tried 64-bit Vista? I have 4GB of RAM, but of course since >I have two 8800GTX cards with 1MB of video ram Vista 32bit (and XP) >reports usable memory of about 2.75GB.
The main issue is that 64 Bit Windows uses (you guessed it!) 64 bit addressing - so all memory addresses and pointers take up twice the space. This means that Vista 64 (or any 64 Bit OS, really) will take up significantly more RAM than a 32 bit OS. The benefit, of course, is that you can use more memory. A good article covering all this is here: http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/15/vista_workshop/ The article claims that 64bit apps (including Windows itself) will run with 20-40% larger memory footprints due to this. In your case I woud guess (nothing more) that the memory you'll reclaim from your video cards should be more than the 64 bit bloat - making it a net gain. But it just won't be as large a gain as you might hope. Of course once you're on 64 Bit you may also consider moving to 8 Gig (or more!) of RAM which would nicely eliminate that concern as well. I've not made the leap myself yet... my system is just plain running too damn well for me to screw around with it too much (these times are precious and should be savoured). But the next time I rebuild I'm considering it. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:257026 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
