On Thursday 03 November 2005 12:30 pm, Davide Listello wrote:
The difference from 64bit and 32bit are in case you want use all the new features of New AMD Architecture like 64bit ALU, 64 FPU, could have more than 4Gbyte of Ram (in the 64bit world you can use and address 8Gbyte of physical Ram). In my opinion the 32 bit version is more suitable for Home / Desktop / Workstation / SOHO use. The 64bit version IS ONLY FOR Server use (like DataCenter, Simulation, and other strange use), if you use linux for "normal" operation like Apache, PHP, MySql, play a video with Mplayer, play a game like Doom3 with Linux Patch, and so on, use the 32bit (NO optimization with the 64 bit version, or in some case is very poor). I use the both version and the load/execution time is very similar. I very much disagree with you in your statement "The 64bit version IS ONLY FOR Server". While most desktop users will not benefit directly from 64-bits, remember that when using the 64-bit OS, you have a linear memory model where if you run a 32-bit OS, you have the x86 32-bit segmented architecture. But, I do agree that the average desktop user is not going to benefit from 64-bits in the near future. But, I think you may see some games and other highly graphic programs start to be built to take advantage of the 64-bit architecture.
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