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Ronhrin
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at this point, for everyone who is considering to upgrade to vista, what is the best installation method to sugest, a 32 or 64 bit instalation?
and what are the respective pros and cons?
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Feb 2007 23:14 Post subject: |
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32-Bit
+Driver Support
64-Bit
-No Driver Support
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Feb 2007 23:28 Post subject: |
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64-bit
+Very high security
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Phluxed
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Feb 2007 23:28 Post subject: |
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Yea, 64 bit is shit for driver support.
32bit is pretty much all you need anyway. 64bit computing as stated in the past relies on driver support getting a lot better.
Format and install is the method I'd suggest? All 'activation' can be done after you install without a key.
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$en$i
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I went from Vista 64-bit to its 32-bit version after a month... because the OS by itself is slower than the 32-bit version, which makes it useless even for my 3 Gb of ram, because it use some 64-bit libraries that render unusable a lot of needed tools (video, some codecs, etc), because of its overrestrictive policy of signed drivers. You shouldn't go over the 64-bit version yet, you will lose your time for no gain when it is not worse performances.
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| Posted: Sat, 3rd Feb 2007 03:14 Post subject: |
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i see alot of people saying go 64bit but i know for a fact 32bit is the main focus in computing
and will continue to be that way for a long time... 64bit is in cpu technology but is slow developing in the software.
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| Posted: Sat, 3rd Feb 2007 09:30 Post subject: |
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I have been pleasantly suprised by the availability and usability of 64-bit drivers.
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| Posted: Sat, 3rd Feb 2007 10:45 Post subject: |
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It's not only about drivers, applications need to be written to take advantage of 64bit computing otherwise the speed difference will not be noticeable.
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All other things being equal (and I know they aren't equal for vista at the moment), running 32-bit apps in a 64-bit enviro isn't going to decrease performance by much if at all. And the apps that have the most to gain (NLE, etc.) are probably going to go 64-bit quicker than the industry as a whole. It needs more time to play out, but I see a lot of reason for optimism about the 64-bit security improvements. And AFAIK, the annoyances of UAC are in the x86 build as well- correct?
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| Posted: Mon, 5th Feb 2007 10:39 Post subject: |
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| lnatan25 wrote: | 64-bit
+Very high security |
Hahahahah!  |
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