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fpantovich · January 16th, 2008, 09:30 AM

I ran Vista Ultimate 64-bit for a while and had no problems with it at all. Every program that I tried to install actually installed and driver support is MUCH better now than it used to be. I'd say give 64-bit a try. Also, if you plan on going for 4GB in RAM or more, you'll need the 64-bit OS to support it, so go for it

Forgot to mention, I'm now on Ubuntu 64-bit, as Vista is just too much of a memory hog. Back when I was running 2GB of RAM it took up about half that just at boot. When I moved up to 6GB of RAM it took up about 1.5-2GB of RAM at boot...Ubuntu 64-bit takes up about 300MB at boot

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fpantovich Ultimate Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 1,420	I ran Vista Ultimate 64-bit for a while and had no problems with it at all. Every program that I tried to install actually installed and driver support is MUCH better now than it used to be. I'd say give 64-bit a try. Also, if you plan on going for 4GB in RAM or more, you'll need the 64-bit OS to support it, so go for it Forgot to mention, I'm now on Ubuntu 64-bit, as Vista is just too much of a memory hog. Back when I was running 2GB of RAM it took up about half that just at boot. When I moved up to 6GB of RAM it took up about 1.5-2GB of RAM at boot...Ubuntu 64-bit takes up about 300MB at boot __________________ My Rig: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.16\|\|6GB OCZ Rev2 DDR2 800 @ 1:1 ratio MSI 975X Platinum\|\|GTX 275 896MB \|\|WD Black 640GB and 2x80GB RAID 0 Last edited by fpantovich : January 16th, 2008 at 09:34 AM.