Vista Premium 32 or 64 bit?

Windows Vista Premium 32 or 64 bit?

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Yourrid

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Im about to buy a computer with 4gigs and a core 2 quad processor. Im debating as to whether i want to put the 32 or 64 bit verson on it. Ive heard some horror stories about vista (i love my xp 32 but everything is going towards vista) and that a lot of programs/drivers wont work with the 64 bit. Is this true and which do you guys think is the better buy? :cool:
 
The stories about stuff not working is false, ive been on Vista x64 now for a year, never once had a problem with drivers. Not once.
 
dude...h8 to bring ya down right now...but u NEED the 64 bit OS to see all 4 gigs of ram.
 
Yeah, but there's little or no improvement between 2GB's and 4GB's of RAM. Since it's ultra cheap though 4GB's may still be worth it, but it doesn't do much. 32 bit sees 3.25, and the real world difference between that and 4GB's is probably non existent.

I would do 64 though since people are saying there's no driver issues, and that is supposedly the downside of 64 bit.
 
well he can use the 32 bit. vista will still say 4 gig ram installed in the computer properties to fool the novice user but he'll actually use 3.5 gigs

anyway, if you're going vista you might as well use 64 bit
 
64 Bit version for drivers and everything will be compatible and so you can see 4GB of ram!!!! :D:D:D:D
 
I use 64bit and do have an nvidia driver issue. It's something to do with EDID monitor profiles not being accepted. It doesn't affect everyone (there is a growing list of unhappy people on the nvidia forums though) and hopefully nvidia will fix it soon. Basically it means that sometimes when Windows logs in that the monitor goes blank and I have to unplug it and plug it back in. Other than that drivers have been fine.
 
I'd like the people that recommended the 32 bit version to say why. If your hardware supports it, I see no real reason not to get the 64 bit version of Vista.
 
Well Ive decided im going to get the 64bit that way Ill be able to add more ram later on... I heard about the driver issue when vista came out, but apparently they fixed all the glitches.

Omega, i agree man, i would like to hear why people like the 32 over the 64
 
Aren't (lack of) drivers and compatibility the only reason to get 32 bit over 64 bit? But it seems this actually isn't an issue.
 
There (AFAIK) is a lack of drivers for 64bit XP, but for 64bit Vista everything should be O.K.

I also wanted to remind everyone that I've been hearing stuff about the lack of 64bit XP drivers being untrue... an I've been hearing the other stuff too... but since it's vista we're talking about, let's not go off topic.
 
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