Re: windows 64 vs 32 bit
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- Subject: [mg108383] Re: windows 64 vs 32 bit
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:02:09 -0500 (EST)
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divisor wrote: > Hello becko: > > 1) you can only install 64-bit Windoze if you have 4GB (or more). > 2) I recently started running this OS with 6GB. All of my older > examples which used a lot of memory (for graphics or imported data) > run much faster now. > 3) the best improvement is that File-Saves which occasionaly were > interminable (sic?) are now completed in a reasonable (if not short) > period of time. > > I will probably go to 8GB soon. > > Roger Williams > Franklin Laboratory > http://www.youtube.com/CongruentLight > > > On Mar 12, 5:12 am, becko BECKO <becko... at hotmail.com> wrote: >> I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I can't think of any better. Would I gain some performance with Mathematica if I installed 64bit windows 7? I have a quad-processor, but only 2 gb ram, so I am not sure. Thanks. > > This statement is certainly not true of Windows XP-64. I have run it on 1GB or RAM quite successfully. Indeed, that is Microsoft's stated minimum requirement: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306856 Have you confused RAM requirements with hard disk usage perhaps? David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk