<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">On 10/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Raymond McLaughlin</b> <<a href="mailto:driveray@ameritech.net">driveray@ameritech.net</a>> wrote:</DEFANGED_span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Collin Kidder wrote:<br> <br>The machine still can dual boot, but I haven't bothered in several<br>weeks. So far I've stayed with the 64 bit mostly "because it's there".<br><br>I'm thinking of doing some time trials between the two at. Say
<DEFANGED_span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> mpg</DEFANGED_span><br DEFANGED_style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><DEFANGED_span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">encoding, which is the kind of thing at which the 64 bit is supposed to</DEFANGED_span><br DEFANGED_style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">
<DEFANGED_span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">shine. But for my own day to day use the difference hasn't really been</DEFANGED_span><br DEFANGED_style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><DEFANGED_span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">worth the time spent worrying about it.
</DEFANGED_span><br DEFANGED_style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br> <br></blockquote></p><DEFANGED_div>Just for discussion's sake, where would <br>one expect a 64-bit CPU to shine on a <br>PC other than the place you mention, and<br>maybe games. In a more expensive
<br>machine, like a server, one could imagine<br>taking advantage of wider buses on a <br>64-bit CPU, which would affect performance<br>significantly. But other than bus bandwidth,<br>and the computations you mention, and
<br>use in games, with appropriate performance<br>video cards, where else would one expect<br>the 64-bit architecture to matter on a typical<br>desktop? I'd guess hardware capable of <br>taking advantage of buses that are 64-bits
<br>wide throughout the machine is going to be<br>pricey. As in a server.<br><br> -Bob<br><br>