Worth Upgrading to XP pro 64bit?

[retrochoir]

System: ASROCK Dual-sata 2 m/b, AMD64 3000+ venice, 2x256mb DDR400, 80gig Ide Hd.

I'm currently running XP pro 32bit. Will upgrading to XP pro 64bit make significantly improve performance?

Thanks,

Jeff

 

[Wishdiak]

I'm wondering the same thing.

System: Asus P5LD2-VM, Intel Pentium 4 3.0 Cedar Mine, 2x256mb DDR2 5400, 80 gig Seagate IDE drive.

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[wolluf]

possibly - but check the driver situation first - there's a lot less support for 64 bit XP. Ditto software (eg, anti-virus).

I have installed both 32 and 64 bit on a test machine (also Vista beta 32 & 64 bit) - the 64 bit semed a bit quicker - but I've not really run anything to seriously check that.

 

[rvnguy]

Depends on what you do and if there are 64bit apps for what you do. The OS is minimaly faster with 32bit apps, and some times slower.

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