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Fistandantilis

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OK I have an installation for 64bit windows but is there any benefit to useing it? I have an AMD 3500+ 64bit chip, but I am unsure about going thru the installation only to find out that I am better with normal windows.
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Performance will definitely increase. With the extra bits, your RAMs won't have to work as hard. However, even though recently there has been an increase in driver support for 64-bit platform it is still very limited. So, if you don't mind the lack of driver support I say go for it and put the AMD to its 64bits usage. I think from what I'm getting from you is that you already have the 64 bits window in hand, if you're only thinking about 64bit I suggest waiting for VISTA and then decide.
 
"With the extra bits, your RAMs won't have to work as hard."

Huh? Not true. I mean, that doesn't even make any sense...

The 64-bit platform won't perform any better than a 32-bit platform for 32-bit applications, with the exception of any OS API's that MSFT might have been able to tweak.

Driver support for the 64-bit platform, as Wall said, is still lacking.

However, you'll be able to take advantage of 64-bit apps when they come out. Since the proc can do 64-bit math, math-intensive applications (can you say 3D games) should get a performance boost. Sixty-four bit procs can also address more physical RAM than the 32-bit procs, but unless you're running >4GB RAM that probably doesn't matter to you.
 
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