[DUG] to Vista 64bit or not?

[Jason Coley]

Yeah, I guess, but I have had a few people recently, who have installed
x64 on the same systems and have claimed better performance, my sister
for one. Her media centre definitely seems quicker with x64 installed
over x86, both installs were clean installs. I don't know why this is,
maybe it's the driver support, I don't know.

 

Jason

 

From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
On Behalf Of Jolyon Smith
Sent: Friday, 7 August 2009 10:39 a.m.
To: Jason
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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