32 or 64??

Robert Spanjaard spamtrap at arumes.com
Sun Jan 31 09:44:59 UTC 2010


On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:25:30 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:

>> Depends what you consider faster.  Most people won't notice any
>> difference on the desktop, since your bottleneck is almost entirely
>> going to be hard drive (in particular, head seek time).
> 
>      Generally speaking the bottleneck is between they keyboard and
>      chair.  ;)

Depends on the task. On my desktop, I regularly use 100% of the CPU's 
power for image and video editing. But on my notebook, it usually stays 
below 2%.
In any case, I didn't notice any difference when switching from 32 to 64 
bit, but I haven't measured it with a stopwatch.

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