jagered Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 (edited) ... just installed the x64 version on my basement tower running a Pentium D 3.0GHz... system flies, but I hate the lack of support for drivers. Mainly, I have a Digivue capture card for security cameras. It worked fine on the x86 version, of course because they wrote the drivers for that o/s?!?! But when I asked them, the only other drivers hey had were for Vista?!?!So now I have a smokin' tower... running a dual boot system with XP x64 on one of my 250G hdd's and UBUNTU on the other 250G hdd. If I can't find drivers to work the capture card... or even a new card hat works in x64, I'll have to down grade it...Is x64 that much better on a puter that can run it than the x86 version?!?! ciao! Edited April 16, 2009 by jagered
Tripredacus Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 I personally feel that the only reason to run a 64bit OS is to be able to do things a 32bit OS is not capable of doing. And having additional RAM, is not one of those reasons. IME the only reasons I have had to run 64bit OS is for large volumes and the ability to run 3 sound cards in one computer. But, hey, if you want to play around with it, that's cool too!
jagered Posted April 16, 2009 Author Posted April 16, 2009 yea... makes sense. i have enough toyz to play around with so keeping it with x64 shouldn't be an issue.3 soundcards?!?! what for??? 1 good one should be all you need, right?
Tripredacus Posted April 17, 2009 Posted April 17, 2009 I see a lot of strange configs come through here sometimes.
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