WORTH IT TO SWITCH TO XP 64 FROM XP 32?

[tenax]

i have not tried xp 64 and have the opportunity to. if you think so, please list the benefits..i really don't want to rebuild simply for no very good reason, if that makes sense..thank you as always.

 

[Billb2]

Five good reasons to use XP x64:
1.) Using more than 3 gigs of ram
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2-5 are blank because there are no good reasons to put there

 

[tenax]

wow..not a stunning endorsement so far i did dabble with it years ago but lack of drivers for my printer and scanner at the time took me out of the running. anyone else?

 

[Crusty]

Billb2 said it. Unless you have more then ~3.2GB of RAM there's really no point to go to XP-64.

 

[MrScott81]

Don't do it!

 

[ChristianV]

If you really have to ask this question, then you certainly don't need it

because if you needed more than 3GiBs of ram, you would know that you need a 64bit OS.
However, this can be achieved by enabling PAE. Afaik that is possible for XP as well, I'm not sure though.

Of course, operations with large numbers are faster, because the registers are increased in size, but this does not significantly increase performance for "normal software"-usage.

 

[KaOTiK]

Only two reasons I use xp64 is I have 16GB of ram and use 64bit versions of a few graphic programs.

If it wasn't for those two reasons I wouldn't be using it

 

[EarthwormJim]

Not worth the effort to upgrade to XP x64 from XP x86.

The only 64 bit OS I'd upgrade to from XP is Vista x64.

 

[0roo0roo]

vista 64
xp 64 is not worth the hassle and soon to be dead.

 

[Schadenfroh]

I switched from XP64 to XP32 due to lack of drivers (mainly the nForce3)...

 

[Rebooted]

Application and driver support in XP 64 is very limited.

I have 4GB RAM in my laptop and have used XP32 (knowing that I can't use that extra 1GB). Now, I'm running Vista64 and application/driver support is amazingly good!