N Z wrote: > > > Dear Eric, > thanks for the fast reply. I already thought that currently there > would not be any real gain by setting up the 64bit version, maybe a little > bit when transcoding movies or trying the new CAELinux 2010 (my old comp was > too low spec). > > I mainly went for it because i never had a 64bit system on any of > my computers so far ;-) and it seemed like a good opportunity to try... > > I will still try a little but if things turn bad i will as you suggest install > the 32bit version as this seems to be the most reasonable thing to do at the > moment... > Movies are probably not going to benefit any. The ONLY thing a 64-bit system does for you is it allows a SINGLE application to use more than 2 GB of memory in one address space. Huge SQL databases, huge CAD surface models and computational fluid dynamics are the places where you run into this.
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