apj101

you can have 4gb in 32bit vista. no more though

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PC eye

This is why I suggested the possibility of a driver set being in beta form at the present time and the reason they have to state that none are available at the present time. Those that find a 64bit version faster at this time is mainly due to not seeing much in the way of games and apps for them at this point for the home user.

The mainstream market is still enmeshed with 32bit. It will take quite a bit longer for the transition from 32bit then it did when going from 16 to 32bit in the 95-98 versions. NT was already 32bit at that time. I went through this when trying to Linux drivers for dsl here when trying out different distros. Finally those are becoming more available.

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Kornowski

I heard it was something like 3.25GB?

Would you say it was pointless and more hastle going for the x64bit?

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apj101

well the os can address 4gb, but it has to use some of the address space for other hardware on the pci such as your vid card etc. So you may see that the ram address drops from 4 to 3gb, but you have the same (plus other) issues in win xp 32it.
You can try implementing the physical address extension
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system...e/default.mspx

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What did one snow man say to the other?
can you smell carrot?

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

How you do anything, is how you do everything!

PC eye

The one thing I mentioned to you before was to try it as a secondary not primary version there in case you were regretting things later. Many are waiting for the SP1 and possible SP2 before even upgrading or dual booting one of the 32bit versions. The one thing I can say here with a 32bit version installed is that the drivers for the new build seem to work better in Vista then XP.

In fact one big annoyance lately was the driver updates for the sound card where Vista drivers were installed when selecting XP as the version at the support site. That was followed when the same thing happened when updating at the MS update page selecting the optional updates for sound there. I then simply used a restore point to see the original cd drivers work.

I was pondering 4gb here for other reasons involving the loads video capturing/editing will place on a cpu as well as the amount of memory used to see whether the increase would help despite the 3gb barrier. I didn't know if you had a chance to read the article about this when I first came across it. You can read that at http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm

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apj101

pc_eye; how can you talk so much and NEVER say anything ??

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What did one snow man say to the other?
can you smell carrot?

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

How you do anything, is how you do everything!

PC eye

Gee? If I had all the knowledge in the world that could upset my style I guess.

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Is EBay going out of the Auction Business?
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Kornowski

So I rekon I'll get 32bit Vista, along with 2 x 512MB of RAM, so I'd have 3GB of RAM, that'd be more than enough, right?

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tlarkin

the 64 bit is not faster per se. It allows access to 64bit architecture and memory addressing. More RAM does not equal faster.

Really, MS screwed this up royally. They should not have seperate versions of the OS. Instead they should have both 64bit and 32bit libraries natively on the OS, so you can run either or, and not have this huge compatibility problems. Several Linux distros do this as well as OS X.

As far as the digital receiver goes, are you referring to a router or an actual media receiver?

Kornowski

Yeah, I know what you mean, it sounds like a good idea to do that, I guess they didn't think about it

I mean the actual reciever, it's this one:

http://cgi.ebay.ie/Inventel-Wireless...QQcmdZViewItem

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