Just a little confused. You are saying that he has to run the 64bit OS
version on the 64bit CPU and cannot run the X86 OS version on that
processor, otherwise all will run as X86 if installed on the 64bit?
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From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [H] CPU-64 or 32?
At 06:55 PM 12/19/2006, Jeff Lane typed:
If I build a 64bit processor system can I run only X86 OS and S/W?
No.
If so, will all the X86 drivers operate as in a normal X86 system?
Yes.
In other words, is there automatic backward compatibility?
Yes.
The reasoning here is that if he does decide, or need, to change to the
64bit in the future he will just have to change OS version and, maybe,
some S/W, rather than build a whole new PC.
He'd always be better off doing a wipe & starting over. XP64 has SP2 in
beta testing as we speak. Hopefully they'll be fixing some more driver
issues.
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