vista 64-bit

[Guest]

You mean Vista 64 bit? Yes. Provided that your hardware and software
applications are optimized for 64 bit processing. Otherwise, not much
difference. Also, Vista 64 is very picky as far as what softwares and drivers
you want to install in it. If there are known issues with a particular
software or driver and Vista knows about it, it won't let you install it. Try
it anyway.

 

[Guest]

since when does intel make a 64 bit p4?

You mean Vista 64 bit? Yes. Provided that your hardware and software
applications are optimized for 64 bit processing. Otherwise, not much
difference. Also, Vista 64 is very picky as far as what softwares and drivers
you want to install in it. If there are known issues with a particular
software or driver and Vista knows about it, it won't let you install it. Try
it anyway.

 

[Robert Moir]

since when does intel make a 64 bit p4?

Since quite a while,. EMT64 extensions (their implementation of the AMD 64
bit instructions) have been around for quite some time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amd64#Intel_CPUs_with_EM64T

 

[Ryan]

I have a Pentium 4 with HT, 2.0gb ddr2 ram, an nvidia geforce 7600gs and
Windows Vista build 5728. My processor supports 64-bit Windows. Can anyone
tell me if I would gain performance over the 32bit version of Vista if i
moved to 62-bit on this system.

Thanks in advance

 

[Guest]

woah, i did not realize. i knew the xeon was x64, but did not know that the
p4's were. if it does the exact same thing as athlons 64's, why have i not
heard more from intel about this feature in their chips? i got an athlon chip
for my pc because i thought the only 64 bit intel chip was the xeon for
workstations as opposed to desktops

 

[Robert Moir]

woah, i did not realize. i knew the xeon was x64, but did not know
that the p4's were. if it does the exact same thing as athlons 64's,
why have i not heard more from intel about this feature in their
chips? i got an athlon chip for my pc because i thought the only 64
bit intel chip was the xeon for workstations as opposed to desktops

I guess they won't make much noise about it because for 95% of all computer
users, talk of 32bit and 64 bit is somewhere between unintelligable
background noise, and confusing techno-babble that could end up in an
expensive mistake. And unless you were buying recently enough for Core 2 Duo
chips to be available, you've almost certainly got the best processor
available at the time you made the purchase...