"VanguardLH" <VanguardLH@mail.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Fred Mertz" wrote in message
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>>I have been running XP Pro 32-bit and life has been good.
>>
>> What are the reasons I (or anyone) would want to run the 64 bit version
>> of XP Pro ?
>
>
> If you had been curious, you would've realized that 64-bit hardware has
> become available for the last several years. Well, if you want to make as
> much use of that 64-bit hardware, switch from a 32-bit OS to a 64-bit
> version. However, unless you have applications that have 64-bit versions,
> the new hardware doesn't help them run faster (other than getting new x64
> hardware usually entails getting faster hardware - but faster hardware,
> 32- or 64-bit, always help speed up your apps).
>
> Since you don't know if it will help you then it won't. If you had 64-bit
> hardware, you would've been motivated to get an OS that also supported it.
> Because you still have 32-bit hardware, you don't need a 64-bit OS and you
> can't use it.
Stunning assessment of my psychology
And you did it all without
reading my palms!
RE:
> If you had 64-bit hardware, you would've been motivated to get an OS that
> also supported it. Because you still have 32-bit hardware, you don't need
> a 64-bit OS and you can't use it.
Fact is I just built a new computer for which [apparently] all parts
"support" 64-bits:
Intel Quad Core 2.4 GHz (Q6600) LGA 775, Giga-Byte GA-P35-DS4 Rev.2.0 (Intel
P35 chipset) MOBO, four Seagate Barracuda SATA II HDs running in RAID 10,
two Asus GeForce 128-bit PCI Express x16 DVI video cards (I have 3 monitors
going), four GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 (1066 PC8500) Dual Channel memory (4x
1GB sticks).
I also have an MSDN Premium subscription which includes every version of
every operating system Microsoft makes - including both 32- and 64-bit
versions of XP and Vista.
Fact-checking aside...
I have never been motivated to go to 64 bits until I built this new computer
over this past weekend and saw that it recognized only 3 GB of the installed
4 MB RAM. Initially thinking that one of the sticks was possibly dead, I did
the research that revealed (for me, anyway), that it was 32-bit XP that was
the limiting factor - showing 3GB available after taking some for the
hardware (whatever). So no sticks are dead - just finaly ran into the 3GB
(or so) limitation of 32-bit Windows on this particular build.
Thus my OP here... now that I have a machine that *could* use it, why would
I? I guess it won't make much difference for me even though I *could* run
it. In fact, based on the various responses to my OP here here, I might run
into more problems going to 64-bits, at least for now.
BTW: What do I want for dinner tonight?
-Fred