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Gdavis101
October 16th, 2008, 18:39
I am getting ready to build a Quad Core system and what I would like to know is would it be beneficial to buy the 64 bit version of Vista or should I stay with the 32 bit version? I will be building this PC for FSX.

Thanks Ahead Of TIme!

demorier
October 16th, 2008, 22:10
Been using a quad core 32 bit system with 4 GB ram and middle of the road Radeon video card with 256Mb on board. It can easily handle anything I've thrown at it so far. In fact I can throw about 4 heavy duty things at it at the same time and it just cranks away. I think you can load up more ram again with 64 bit OS.

hey_moe
October 17th, 2008, 02:17
I have both 32 and 64 on my system. Both work fine. Not many drivers for the 64 bit and also programs, but both work fine. If you are into game playing ya might wanna stick with 32 bit....Mike

Gdavis101
October 17th, 2008, 08:56
Thank you guys, I am leaning towards Vista 32 just because of some of the problems with the 64bit version and FSX, I am essentially building it for FSX.

Butcherbird17
October 17th, 2008, 09:41
Id go with Vista x64. I haven't had no problems with any 32 bit programs or drivers not working in it. FSX runs smooth in either dx9 or dx10 preview on my dual core.

Joe

David_L6
October 17th, 2008, 12:02
Vista Ultimate comes with both 32 bit and 64 bit. Buy Ultimate and try 64. If you don't like it you can install 32.

hey_moe
October 17th, 2008, 14:16
The good thing about buying that David is you can install each one on a seperate drive and play with both of them:wavey:

Dain Arns
October 17th, 2008, 15:44
There are plenty of drivers for Vista 64. Hard to believe it's been almost 2 years already for Vista, but I really have had only a handful of problems with programs in that time. Been pretty flawless for me so far.