The Truth, Win32 or Win64?

[Reznik Akime]

This is a question for those who have no fanboy bias and have had some experence with Win64. Is there really a notable performance boost in a switch or is it not worth the trouble?

I want facts from people who arent paid off by MS to push their product. =/

[[XC] moddolicous]

I dont have Win64, but something you gotta watch for is drivers. I've used a 64bit OS, but not windows.

[Major]

I've had a dual boot setup for several months with Win64 evaluation on it, I like it just fine. Don't really see any performance gains with it, altho it does manage memory better and I can see where using it with some heavy apps would be of benifit.

But Win64 is not ready for prime time yet, lack of drivers and flaky drivers are a real problem. Nvidia and ATI have good solid drivers avialble as do the chipset makers. But you get away from that and you in trouble. No drivers for my TV tuner card, my printer(s), and the X-Fi driver has issues.

I'd say pass on it for now

[JAWS]

But Win64 is not ready for prime time yet, lack of drivers and flaky drivers are a real problem.


I agree! :)

I've seen Win64 shine in demos when moving huge chunks of data and 3d development. (but the demos were performed by Microsoft)

[Reznik Akime]

I had totally forgotten I even made this post. For the longest time I was thinking that I had let something slip my mind.

But anyway, I think im just gonna try it for the heck of it. I dont use too many driver intensive things and what I do has already put out support for the OS, so why not.