Re: windows 64 vs 32 bit
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- Subject: [mg108394] Re: windows 64 vs 32 bit
- From: divisor <congruentialuminaire at yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:45:58 -0500 (EST)
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Hello David: I stand corrected...it looks like it is 2GB.. I never tried XP x64...I run Win7...this page says 2GB for Win7 x64 http://capitalhead.com/articles/windows-7-requirements-for-64-bit-(x64)-and-32-bit-(x86)-personal-computers.aspx Roger Williams Franklin Laboratory http://www.youtube.com/congruentlight On Mar 15, 5:04 am, David Bailey <d... at removedbailey.co.uk> wrote: > 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 Baileyhttp://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -