[DUG] to Vista 64bit or not?

[Jeremy Coulter]

does windows 7 see all the RAM?
 
Jeremy

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From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Jolyon Smith
Sent: 7 August 2009 10:27
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: Re: [DUG] to Vista 64bit or not?



The real question though is how much benefit you actually got from that
extra 0.5 - 1GB ?

 

I'm guessing not much.  Not really.  But if you've got a system equipped
with 6GB or 8GB. at that point 64-bit makes perfect sense (and if you're the
sort of user that is loading a 4GB system so heavily that the extra 0.5-1GB
*does* make a difference, you're probably the sort of user that would like
6-8GB of RAM anyway and you've already long since moved on to 64-bit).

 

But at 4GB I really don't think there's much in it, so whilst there may not
be a specific reason to use 32-bit, there's also no great compelling reason
to use 64-bit either, and a few *potential* reasons not to (lack of 64-bit
support for XYZ, where XYZ varies from individual to individual) potential
complications when running (some) 32-bit software etc etc.

 

+0.02

 

From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Sean Cross
Sent: Friday, 7 August 2009 10:12
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] to Vista 64bit or not?

 

Vista 32 will never see all 4 gb due to mapping issues with the video card
etc.  Under Vista 32, I got between 3 and 3.5 gb available on my laptops.
Vista 64 got the lot.  How much you lose depends on your video card memory.

 

Regards

 

Sean Cross
CIO

Catalyst Risk Management

 

From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Jolyon Smith
Sent: Friday, 7 August 2009 10:01 a.m.
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: Re: [DUG] to Vista 64bit or not?

 

aiui if you've only got 4GB of RAM then I don't think 64-bit is going to
make that much of a difference.  Of course, if you have the capacity to go
beyond 4GB of physical RAM and the intention to do so, then 64-bit might be
worthwhile.

 

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