Comments on: Do I Really Need 64-bits?

By: Jon Pullen

Jon Pullen — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:38:01 +0000

I have had a 64bit cpu in my laptop for 1 year now.. I just upgraded to vista x64 ultimate 4 days ago. I have no sound with on board sound but thats ok.. The performance and the speed is unreal compaired to even Windows XP x64 witch I ran before. I have a ZV6130us laptop from HP, It ran OK but was slower like you said with 32bit apps.. one thing it did do was when coming down to gaming on the system, 64bit did a 40% improvment to my GPU…. I am blowen away how much faster my FPS are even in 32bit mode. And my laptop is OLD.

By: Jason Boche

Jason Boche — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:20:02 +0000

Good article - thanks!

By: James D. Murray

James D. Murray — Thu, 17 May 2007 17:26:31 +0000

Rick, I basically came to the same conclusions. I was planning on my next laptop being 64-bit with Windows Vista Ultimate x64 edition, but it looks like a 32-bit dual- or quad-core is more practical. Unless I attempt to realize my dream of owning a single server to contain a universe of virtual machines running MMORPG software, I have no reason to consider a 64-bit machine for myself.

By: ricka182

ricka182 — Thu, 17 May 2007 14:02:42 +0000

What a great entry JD!…..I thought about going to 64, believeing the hype of how great and powerful it was, but when I did similar research, I found similar results. I don’t think any typical user would need 64 bit, at least not for a very long time. The advance in multi-core CPUs has pretty much kept the 64 bit stuff on the downlow for a while, and I can’t remember when I saw the last 64 bit advert. Yes, they are still out there, but the whole duo-core thing is really taking precedence. I have heard the quad-cores are to be released in Q4 this year, or early next. I’ll wait for those, and see. I’m happy with my compatible hardware for now…..