On Tuesday 27 November 2007 1:45:10 pm Danny Ching wrote: > I know that 64bit can access more memory, and that 64bit is supposed to > make multimedia processing faster. My question is: What advantage does 64 > bit CPU's like the Intel Core 2 Duos, or AMD x2's have over vanilla 32 bit > CPU's (if both have say 2GB of RAM)? Will there be a noticeable difference > if all I do is browse, and use office apps? How about gimp (does it have to > be an extremely large project to be able to notice the difference)?
64-bit computers process data in larger chunks than 32-bit - so everything comes into place, not just the amount of memory that you have installed. This will also depend on the software you're running. If it's 64-bit, then it'll perform much much faster even if compared on a 32-bit machine with more ram and faster cpu. I still don't think you'll notice performance increase if you're running office apps while browsing the web - better stick with 32-bit for this. But if you're doing heavy multimedia stuff like editing videos and audios, that's when you'll notice a big difference. Files loads and saves faster, and processing effects are instant. GIMP? Unless you're editing a 100MB file. Blender? Hell yes! But then again, you need 64-bit drivers and software too if you're thinking of getting one. Also see the Wikipedia article on 64-bit computing[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit -- Dax Solomon Umaming http://knightlust.com/ GPG: 0x715C3547
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