TheLatinHeat

What are the benifits pro and con from both OS?

Is 64bit better than 32bits?

What are the benefits of going 64bits?

zorpnic

Two of the best thoughts to your question are these:

1. When you deal with 32-bit, almost anything is available to you when you want something on your computer. Drivers are more available. Programs are a lot more fluent. You rarely have to beat yourself in the head with a tack hammer due to the fact that you got serious system errors for trying to install something like iTunes or even your local sound card drivers. With 64-bit, you've got a new ball park, what with the need to find almost EVERY SINGLE DRIVER ALL OVER AGAIN FOR 64-BIT SYSTEMS. G15s and G5s are useless without software, but still run, thankfully. A lot of the system errors are based on conflicts with hash checks and code discrepancies between the 32-bit host profile and SysWow64. It's nothing horrible, but it can be a severe pain in the ass sometimes. After three months of Windows x64, I'm thankful to have found my XP Home w/ SP2 again. I almost gave up on M$. Oh, and good luck with ATI cards on 64-bit systems when in crossfire...... you'll error out time and time again.

2. Games kick ass on 64-bit systems. Even if they can't be ran in CF mode, I'm sure for the nVidia fan people out there, it's surely the best there is. Some run with a mind of their own, and some run slower than frosted molasses. Affinities are good in this case.... setting them to be best in compability with Windows XP or Windows 2k. I'm sure you'll hear about FRAPS from someone better skilled to speak of it, but that's my POV.

Thanks for listening.

I'd say 64-bit has it's pluses.... more security, a definite increase in modifiers and fields involving how you want things done, data recovery, and errorproofing a system without high maintenance. This can be done with XP, but isn't near what 64-bit windows is without a lot of extra programming.

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The Hundred Gunner

I've used both as my main OSs before.

Use x86 unless you have x64 specific software; if you benchmark games and tests, you will see that x64 is slower than x86 running x86 software.

x64, however, seems to be much more stable as an OSs.

Take your pick

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TheLatinHeat

Thanks I got a better understanding now about this two OS. =) I think I will stick with the 32bits until there are more program made to run under 64bit or that take advantage of it.

tubnotub1

64 bit can also address far more ram then 32 bit can (which maxes out at 3.24 gigs I think).

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JeremyFr

I dual boot 64bit and 32bit XP and things to think of are this.

64bit -
Do you have an X64 processor?
Are you using extreme amounts of ram (i.e. 2gigs+)?
Are you running at least 32bit apps only (no 8bit or 16 bit applications)?

If you can answer yes to those questions and know that all of your hardware has available drivers then go for it, at least dual boot for a while to check for any incompatibilities.

I like 64, its nice and stable and runs all the app's I throw at it. As for game play I haven't done any comparisons on my machine. But the reviews I've read have all come to the same conclusion 99.9% of the time there is a neglible difference in performace between XP and XP64 i.e. usually 2-4FPS and depending on the game it could be slower or faster either way between the 2.

All I can say from personal experience is try it out.