Yeah, I guess, but I have had a few people recently, who have installed x64 on the same systems and have claimed better performance, my sister for one. Her media centre definitely seems quicker with x64 installed over x86, both installs were clean installs. I don't know why this is, maybe it's the driver support, I don't know.
Jason From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Jolyon Smith Sent: Friday, 7 August 2009 10:39 a.m. To: Jason Subject: Re: [DUG] to Vista 64bit or not? The real question though is how much benefit you actually got from that extra 0.5 - 1GB ? I'm guessing not much. Not really. But if you've got a system equipped with 6GB or 8GB... at that point 64-bit makes perfect sense (and if you're the sort of user that is loading a 4GB system so heavily that the extra 0.5-1GB *does* make a difference, you're probably the sort of user that would like 6-8GB of RAM anyway and you've already long since moved on to 64-bit). But at 4GB I really don't think there's much in it, so whilst there may not be a specific reason to use 32-bit, there's also no great compelling reason to use 64-bit either, and a few *potential* reasons not to (lack of 64-bit support for XYZ, where XYZ varies from individual to individual) potential complications when running (some) 32-bit software etc etc. +0.02 From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Sean Cross Sent: Friday, 7 August 2009 10:12 To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] to Vista 64bit or not? Vista 32 will never see all 4 gb due to mapping issues with the video card etc. Under Vista 32, I got between 3 and 3.5 gb available on my laptops. Vista 64 got the lot. How much you lose depends on your video card memory. Regards Sean Cross CIO Catalyst Risk Management From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Jolyon Smith Sent: Friday, 7 August 2009 10:01 a.m. To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' Subject: Re: [DUG] to Vista 64bit or not? aiui if you've only got 4GB of RAM then I don't think 64-bit is going to make that much of a difference. Of course, if you have the capacity to go beyond 4GB of physical RAM and the intention to do so, then 64-bit might be worthwhile.
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