On 21 May 2008, at 14:34, Hayes Elkins wrote:
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
Those numbers are Vista launch era though, updated drivers and SP1
have brought things along somewhat, the margin is much much smaller
now to my knowledge.
-JB
