> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 12:23:03 +0100
> Subject: Re: [H] Time for upgrades
>
>
> On 21 May 2008, at 04:00, Winterlight wrote:
>
>> At 02:41 PM 5/20/2008, you wrote:
>>> Why would you get a 3Ghz quad, 4GB of ram, and x38 mainboard... and
>>> then run a 32bit OS?
>>
>> The performance gain for a 64 bit is not as big as you are making it
>> out to be, and there are lots of issues. At least from what I have
>> read. Take a look at this months editors comments in MaxiumPC on
>> Vista64.
>
> I'm using Vista64 here, and I haven't encountered any issues,
> admittedly I'm mainly using that for gaming, preferring to get into
> OSX when not actively running a game.. but it's behaved itself.
Vista x64 shows some moderate improvements in performace across the board over
XP 32 and 64 except for OpenGL applications/games. So if you play a lot id
games or id engine licensed games (Quake, Doom, Wolfenstein, etc.) the
performace hit is around 25%.
http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2917&p=19
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