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Need 64 bit OS

Effluo · 2009-01-17 18:14:55

Hi i'm a student and i'm looking for an Os for my new gaming pc. Budget is the name of the game so i was looking at Vista home basic for 85 euro on dabs. Anyone tell if there are any big dissadvantages having only basic vista for me. It'd be pretty much only a gaming pc Also dabs do it for 85 euro Oem anyone know where i…

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#32 22-01-2009 5:20pm

kayos

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Overheal wrote: »

Well, multicore processors have been mainstream for a few years now and only now is software being developed to take advantage of the change. 64-bit only became a buzzword 18 months ago, and I suspect it will be quite some time before its really adopted. especially by gaming. Dont fall into the idea of "future proofing" by geting a DX10 capable operating system. For instance.

64Bit has only become a buzzword for the home market in the last 18months but has been around and widely used a hell of a lot longer in the industry. DEC Alpha’s where using the 64bit RISC instruction set many, many moons ago and was supported in NT4 (from the MS camp) and many other OS’s VMS/Unix/Linux/BSD.

It might even take longer for 64-bit. At least with multi-core CPUs the new binary still works on single core machines. With 64-bit you need a totally new binary so you're knocking out a lot of potential business unless you port the app to 32-bit as well.

There is sod all porting involved if you write the code to support it from the get go. After that it’s a case of building it for the target platform. No reason why companies would not be able to provide both sets of binaries just like they would provide a MAC and PC version.

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