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Got Vista x64 Now what?
Alright, so i had ordered Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit. It's installed. Drivers and all. I'm a little familiar with 64bit because i did have it for XP back in 2005. I guess what i want to know is, why did i spend this money? What are my advantages. What can i use to test the abilities of my 64bit. NOTE: I still have dual boot with Vista 32bit because i lost my Gears of war disc and don't want to lose the installation just yet. LOL.
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Your experience is going to be almost identical to Vista 32 apart from the increased RAM.
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For Norman Bum, eureka and Outcasst. I already have DX10 and DX10 games. If you read my post you would have seen not only the mention of dual-boot with vista 32bit, but also gears of war.
However, Outcasst, you're basicly telling me theres no advantages right now? No software that will run better on 64bit?
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stick 8GB of ram in your pc....use it for a month....and then see if you can go back to 32bit
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In my extensive tests with Vista Ultimate 32bit and 64bit, 64bit has about a 33% increase in speed and performance over the 32bit counterpart. But overall, your performance increase is dependent on your hardware in your system.
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Ok, so look at my system. E8400 OC'ed to 3.6Ghz. and rest in sig.
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For one thing security. A little while back there was a big article on DEP in Vista and how it could be bypassed completely, well not on 64bit Vista, since DEP is enforced at the hardware level, instead of the software.
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I believe also, that some benchmarks have shown that 64 bit is faster than 32 bit vista even with normal every day tasks. I'll see what I can dig up for proof.
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