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Old Jun 24, 2005 | 09:39 AM
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Is anyone using it?


Let me know........
My new PC will be here next week
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Old Jun 24, 2005 | 10:32 AM
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what is the difference?
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Old Jun 24, 2005 | 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by LT6916
what is the difference?
64 bit vs 32 bit
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Old Jun 24, 2005 | 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Grifter
64 bit vs 32 bit
and that means.....?
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Old Jun 24, 2005 | 11:38 AM
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twice the bits of course!
:dunno:
IBwindowssuckswindowssucks! :slap:
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Old Jun 24, 2005 | 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by iNteGraz92
twice the bits of course!
:dunno:
that made me :chuckles:
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Old Jun 24, 2005 | 12:50 PM
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y'know... I also have no idea what the real benefit of having a 64-bit windows, too.

I just always assumed it was faster and used up less processing power.
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Old Jun 24, 2005 | 08:31 PM
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specifically made for AMD 64 of course...it unleashes its full power to overcome intel.
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Old Jun 24, 2005 | 09:16 PM
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it has no valuable use at this time. it's kinda like the whole console race back in the day. nintendo was 8 bit, the genesis came out and was 16bit, then 32bit systems were developed, then N64 and others followed.....

Bit = colors display....in a nutshell. With normal windows xp, "most" video cards support 32bit (which is 16.9 million colors), the more colors your OS can support (in theory), the less strain on video cards.

unfortunately, there is only a handful of software that currently support 64 bit processing, so it's pretty much useless at this point.
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Old Jun 24, 2005 | 09:33 PM
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Originally Posted by dE.fUsEd
it has no valuable use at this time. it's kinda like the whole console race back in the day. nintendo was 8 bit, the genesis came out and was 16bit, then 32bit systems were developed, then N64 and others followed.....

Bit = colors display....in a nutshell. With normal windows xp, "most" video cards support 32bit (which is 16.9 million colors), the more colors your OS can support (in theory), the less strain on video cards.

unfortunately, there is only a handful of software that currently support 64 bit processing, so it's pretty much useless at this point.
i thought
bits = largest chunk of data process-ible at a time? :dunno:

right now i believe everything processed has to be broken into smaller 32bit chunks ... 64 bit processing can mean less chunks and more bits processed per cycle, hum?
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