64 bit XP Pro or 32 Bit?

[hawk16]

I just ordered my new parts for my new PC, Core 2 Duo E6750, 8800GTS, 2GB DDR2, its gonna be very nice (and the price wasn't to bad either). I have not built a PC since the P4 Prescott days (my current build is a p4 2.8ghz prescott). I noticed that the E6750 has 64 bit capabilities and I was wondering if I should install Windows XP Pro 64 bit or regular 32 bit? Would it be harder to install drivers and such with 64 bit, and would I get better or worse performance?

 

[postmortemIA]

it won't hurt, but likely you won't see much benefit. If you had 4GB of RAM, there would be some benefit, but with 2GB there's isn't.

if you just run regular mainstream software -most of it doesn't existing in 64-bit version.

 

[imported_djnes]

I'd go with the 64 bit version, simply because it gives you the option of adding another 2 GB of RAM without re-installing the OS.

 

[Schadenfroh]

My benchmarks of XP64 versus XP32