doyl Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Windows XP 32bit or Windows XP 64bit, that is the question? :wacko: I haw a Intel® Celeron® CPU 2.53GHz.My Tune UP system advisor suggest to upgrade Windows XP 32bit to Windows XP 64bit. Is it Windows XP 64bit better or not? :wallbash: Other technicality Memory 768MBVideo Card NVIDIA GeForce 6200 Advice please !!! :thanks: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor. Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 I think the 64bit xp is the way for you, i think your celeron is 64bit?. You would notice a 10fps difference in games, even with older cards and cpu's. http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-MSI/910GLM2-...MS-7269%29.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHammonds Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 WinXP 64-bit is notoriously buggy in regards to the 64-bit drivers for hardware. If the CPU is capable of 64-bit, then the OS can be 64-bit as well but Windows will require that every piece of hardware also has 64-bit drivers too. If you have an old printer, scanner or PCI cards that is no longer supported and never had 64-bit drivers, you will not be able to use them. You can run many 32-bit software on a 64-bit OS but you might find some is simply not capable of running in the OS. A primary reason for upgrading to a 64-bit OS is access to RAM over 3.5 GB. If you don't even have 1 GB, you might be hurting yourself going 64-bit for increase potential of problems without the benefit. So, to wrap it up, the 64-bit versions of Windows started out rough and got better with each revision: WinXP, Vista, Win7. If your PC can run WinXP 32-bit, you might want to try out Win7 32-bit and see how it runs. LHammonds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagrant0 Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 If your PC can run WinXP 32-bit, you might want to try out Win7 32-bit and see how it runs. LHammondsSurely you jest... Windows 7 needs a minimum of 1gb ram to function. Stick with XP 32, there is absolutely no reason for you to upgrade with your current system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHammonds Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 Surely you jest... Windows 7 needs a minimum of 1gb ram to function.Nope. I had it running on a 5-year-old IBM with 512 MB of RAM...well, the Win7 Release Candidate (RC). It (and the video card) could not run Aero but it did seem to run better than XP. LHammonds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor. Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 Buggy?, i haven't had any issues with XP 64bit?. I agree though switch to Windows 7, its best way to go. Just remember it wont run with 256mb of ram, found out the hard way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagrant0 Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 Surely you jest... Windows 7 needs a minimum of 1gb ram to function.Nope. I had it running on a 5-year-old IBM with 512 MB of RAM...well, the Win7 Release Candidate (RC). It (and the video card) could not run Aero but it did seem to run better than XP. LHammondsHmm, odd. Was pretty sure I turned off most of the "special" features, but I'm still constantly using between 800mb and 1.3gb RAM at all times. Maybe it's because I'm using the 64 bit professional, or, there's some stuff buried away that I didn't see. This is going to bug me now. I would still think that XP might be a better option since none of the hardware drivers for that system are designed for windows 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pronam Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 The OS are getting more optimized towards your system, I've never seen the same amount of ram-usage at any system...while my laptop and PC both use the exact same programs. I have my parent's PC running at win7 that has 512mb, and it's all ok. Just running a lot of programs a time is unwise. That PC is 7 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illiad86 Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 Buggy?, i haven't had any issues with XP 64bit?. I agree though switch to Windows 7, its best way to go. Just remember it wont run with 256mb of ram, found out the hard way. Yeah, wut you talking about ? :P Never had issues with WinXP Pro 64 bit at all...very stable :) But going to Windows 7 is a good idea nowadays, no point in buying XP anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHammonds Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 Hmm, odd. Was pretty sure I turned off most of the "special" features, but I'm still constantly using between 800mb and 1.3gb RAM at all times. Maybe it's because I'm using the 64 bit professional, or, there's some stuff buried away that I didn't see. This is going to bug me now.I was using the 32-bit version of the release candidate. Yeah, wut you talking about ? :P Never had issues with WinXP Pro 64 bit at all...very stable :)I did not say every 64-bit system of WinXP was buggy. If you have a solid WinXP 64-bit system, good for you. Today's hardware and drivers have good support for 64-bit now-a-days. The further back in time you go with hardware and software (apps and OS), the more problems you are "likely" to run into. To the original poster, I am with Vagrant0. Between just WinXP 32-bit or WinXP 64-bit, the OP should stick with 32-bit. But if he has an option to try Win7 32-bit, he should check it out...such as pulling out his existing hard drive and putting in an unused one to give Win7 a try...if it does not work, simply put the old hard drive back in. LHammonds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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