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[Lallous]

Windows 7 professional is being offered by Microsoft for 39,99$ CAD or 30$ USD for college students (basically whoever has an educational email address). I think other countries are included too, don't know the price though.

I am tempted to go legit for once. Since my processor handles 64 bits and my current OS is 32 bits, I don't know if I should get the 64 bits version. What do you think of getting it, and which version to choose ?

[nuclearcat]

Depends on specs of your hardware. Except 64-bit you need decent video card and at least 1G of ram (better 2+).
Maybe try trial first.

[Danny Z]

Originally Posted by Lallous

Windows 7 professional is being offered by Microsoft for 39,99$ CAD or 30$ USD for college students (basically whoever has an educational email address). I think other countries are included too, don't know the price though.

I am tempted to go legit for once. Since my processor handles 64 bits and my current OS is 32 bits, I don't know if I should get the 64 bits version. What do you think of getting it, and which version to choose ?

why are they charging 10$ more for canadians? sir2a w nhib

[Lallous]

Originally Posted by Danny Z

why are they charging 10$ more for canadians? sir2a w nhib

For the UK, it's 30 pounds (around 50-55$ CAD) and Australia, it's 49,95 $ AUD (around 50$ CAD). So Canadians got a fair deal

[Evolution]

Originally Posted by nuclearcat

Depends on specs of your hardware. Except 64-bit you need decent video card and at least 1G of ram (better 2+).
Maybe try trial first.

The 64-bit doesn't need a better video card than 32-bit version

However, it will use a little more system RAM than 32-bit version

[Red Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Lallous

Windows 7 professional is being offered by Microsoft for 39,99$ CAD or 30$ USD for college students (basically whoever has an educational email address). I think other countries are included too, don't know the price though.

I am tempted to go legit for once. Since my processor handles 64 bits and my current OS is 32 bits, I don't know if I should get the 64 bits version. What do you think of getting it, and which version to choose ?

go 64bit if u have 2g+ rams

the nightmarish 64bit drivers issue of the past is no longer an issue

u get to run 32bit apps with generally no performance loss in a seperate layer, so 32bit viruses and stuff will not trash ur 64 bit registry and processes

u get more system stability thx to this extra layer also

better smooth feel of hard disk cashing since in 64bit the windows OS doesnt seem to feel the urge to swap or remove data that quickly from mem after u run a certain program

u get access to native 64bit apps, some of them run quite faster in 64 bit such as 3ds max (and some 32bit apps run faster under 64 bit like 3dmark cpu tests)

u get more than 4gb of linear memory ram to play with, and each process is no longer limited to 2gb as is the case in normal 32 bit (max 3gb in 32bit if compiled as large address aware and the os is 32 bit tweaked to support it, and u dont need special memory segmentations schemes to run over 4gb)

& chicks will dig u for going 64bit since now u got that extra geeky edge hehe

but in reality, 64bit is the way of the near future, so dont dwaddle in 32 bit for long

the downside is 16bit apps wont run (so run them in a virtual box instead)

u got a 0.1% chance that some 32bit apps work work (a needle in a haystack)

there might be a 0.1% performance penalty overhead in running some 32bit apps under the compatibility layer/visor in 64bit

and there is a 0.1% chance that u wont find a 64bit driver for some super shtty device u have ;)

64 bit apps are a little bigger than 32 bit apps hence take a little bit more mem space

Crysis runs slower in 64 bit (hahaha)

it's up to u to decide

[Evolution]

Originally Posted by Red Phoenix

go 64bit if u have 2g+ rams

I say go 64-bit if you have at least 4GB ram.

Remember that 64-bit consume more memory than 32-bit version.

Furthermore, the minimum system requirement for Windows 7 (64-bit) is 2GB ram according to Microsoft. It is not a good idea to have same RAM as the minimum system requirements

Originally Posted by Red Phoenix

Crysis runs slower in 64 bit (hahaha)

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ng,2250-7.html

The difference is negligible. You won't notice any difference.

[Red Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Evolution

I say go 64-bit if you have at least 4GB ram.

Remember that 64-bit consume more memory than 32-bit version.

Furthermore, the minimum system requirement for Windows 7 (64-bit) is 2GB ram according to Microsoft. It is not a good idea to have same RAM as the minimum system requirements

that's what i said 2gb+

i tested win7 64bit with 2gb and 4gb

2gb was definitely OK

4gb is better

smoother loads and swift task switching

now going below 2gb with 64bit win7 when u use heavy apps/games will become a horror story

Crysis: Testing Native 64-Bit Performance - Review Tom's Hardware : Gaming In 64-Bit: Tom's Tests, Microsoft Weighs In

The difference is negligible. You won't notice any difference.

no i did notice and the bechmarks lost around 5fps on my pc. when everything is maxed u can use those couple of frames u lost for some cool effect like light shafts instead or use them to remain above the critical borderline 30fps which is quite noticebale when u drop to 25fps. for geeks that is noticable. now if u got a drop from 85fps to 80 then u wont notice a thing.

at any rate that's not the point, the point is that instead of being faster in 64bit crysis is actually indeed slower and that was my joke hehe

[Evolution]

I did some research on youtube and google, it appears that Windows 7 use less RAM usage than Vista despite the higher system requirements on W7.
Also W7 has much faster boot-time than Vista



Vista looks like joke when compared to win 7, it is older, slower and more resource-hog

[nuclearcat]

Originally Posted by Evolution

The 64-bit doesn't need a better video card than 32-bit version

However, it will use a little more system RAM than 32-bit version

Win7 need, not 64-bit.