Vista 32 vs 64 sp1

I took this as the time from the boot loader to a usable desktop. The results from this set of benchmark runs have turned out to be quite clear. Let me summarize the results here:. I've changed the way I charge my iPhone. You should, too. Time for a Linux smartphone? Developers are in short supply. Here are the skills and programming languages employers need.

Windows Do these six things right away after you finish setup. The painful shame of owning an Android phone. The results are quite interesting. Each test was run four times and the lowest score from each run was discarded.

The remaining results were then averaged to produced a final score. Speed demons might want to hold out on SP1 for a while - there may well be some new performance enhancing updates released later.

Next week I'll look at gaming and see how performance is affected there, and in case your head is spinning from all the benchmarks, I'll do a post that pulls all the data together.

I've changed the way I charge my iPhone. You should, too. Time for a Linux smartphone? Developers are in short supply. The only real downside would be the cost of obtaining a server software. I expected XP to perform better in graphics but the push has been making some headway with Vista. The only real show of XP's performance is on the disk performance and non of the tests I conducted included a boot timing.

The best result you can obtain would be to use a stopwatch and time the boot, but this can even change due to prefetching. The boot results differs between computers with different performances. I don't have an answer to that swing in performance, but my guess is that it has to do with Vista using more RAM than the pagefile.

The same logic is applicable with running games on windows 98 to gain even more performance. For those who think the plunge into bit will leave you missing drivers and having compatibility issues, don't worry. The drivers for XP 64 tend to be more difficult to find. The bit side does not support bit software it won't function at all and drivers have to be digitally signed.

Be aware that while most software will work, there may be issues with custom software schools use for VPN or similar.

I could not perform that this time due to the M downclocking due to heat in 3DMark. It takes a bit more time to set a profile to prevent that. Until next time, have a great day. Respectfully, Trebuin. Wow Treb Thats alot of work! It is nice to see you back again. With respect to the testing, I didn't find many surprises as I have been an avid supporter of 64 bit. Not being a gamer, I also believed the word of pretty much every gamer out there that the graphics were better in XP. I think you may see some XP gamers running to make sure they get 64bit installed with the outstanding performance of XP64 in graphics.

There is alot of work here; something that should be considered for front page news. If you do find it most of the time it is a tiny section and it almost as if it does not even exist. I just do not understand why MS has missed the boat on this, trying to find 64 bit on their site is like trying to find a ad for Red Hat…. Easy: Microsoft is first and foremost about marketing and trying to chase new markets, not spend money on markets they already totally own. Pretty big boat anchor for them to overcome.

Win Server is primarily bit. When you run a 32bit app under a 64bit OS, the 32bit app can use the complete 4GB for its own address space, while it can only use 2GB of ram on a 32bit OS since the upper half is reserved for the operating system. At work, I am running. NET applications in 32bit mode even on a 64bit machine because the 32bit code generation is currently better optimized. But at least they can use 4GB of ram, which makes a big difference.

Was not in having x64 only for Vista. This would have made Vista a hell of a lot more of a success. I agree completely. MS should have just concentrated on how well the OS handles bit apps which it already does quite well instead of worrying about having 6 different versions of the OS is that right?

Vista bit. I remember the big hoo-ha when everyone moved from 32bit from 16bit. ShadesFox Thing is that now there is more to the move then just the bitness.

Microsoft chose 32bit, everyone else does 64bit for these values As for coding bit allows you to be lazy more than anything. Quag7 That site is pretty egregious.

Edited UTC. Square With ram prices being as low as they are I decided to take the plunge and upgrade to 6 gigs of ram with vista It went rather well, I found drivers for all my hardware and every app but one gametap do to drm worked just as it did on x32 A few things surprised me and only found out about when I installed x64 1 Vista comes with 32bit and 64bit versions of IE and WMP and by default will use the 32bit version.

So my personal reality is that the internet lemming hatred of Vista is a bit unwarranted.