certainly on the professional or consumer end, the potential of things like 64bit architecture or multicore CPU's is rarely taken advantage of in the way's that it's predecessor was milked. their own teeth, and as it stands we've reached a perceptual 'guudnufff' era of computing where outside of the data center, or other large scale computing operations. the switch to 32 bit was like pulling teeth for programmers. There's alot more to it than that, but as well the programing end is also much more complex. In short, any amount of memory greater than 4 GB can be easily handled by it.' 'A 32-bit system can access 232 different memory addresses, i.e 4 GB of RAM or physical memory ideally, it can access more than 4 GB of RAM also.Ī 64-bit system can access 264 different memory addresses, i.e actually 18-Quintillion bytes of RAM. I wanted to pull a quote to be accurate, cause its kinda irritating how modern programing has left this tech by the wayside, only just recently starting to dabble and not nearly at the level that it could be. 32 Bit programs will run okay, but never as efficiently as 64 bit ones. Definetely worth it if you have 64 bit Windows.
Originally posted by pauldiazberrio:64 bit= twice the calculations, twice the application processing power.
