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Old January 1st 06, 05:45 PM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
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ragav schrieb:

Benj, I see that u have a 64 bit pc. That does'nt mean that everyone
has it.


Well, of course the majority of used PCs is still 32bit (and that will
probably be the case for at least another year). But _new_ computers
which are available in stores are already 64bit for over a year now...

It _has_ arrived! everybody in the world knows that.But what i
actually meant was that it has to get a lil' popular. IF ur playing a
32-bit game in a 64-bit processor it does'nt make any difference!!


Exactly.

Games which r especially dedicated for 64-bit processor only use the
full potential of the processor. For ur kind info, 32-bit PCs r not
exaxtly like the 64's.


They are. Except the 64bit enhancement in the cpus they are basically
the same like 32bit PCs...

They'll have perfect edge over the 32bit WHEN u
hav 64-bit applications.


Of course, the same way for example a Mac has the perfect edge over a
Windows PC when running Mac programs ;-)

Besides that, 64bit doesn't automatically make a program run faster.
Really, usually most 64bit programs indeed are a bit _slower_ than their
32bit counterpart if the program can't make use of the specialities
64bit offers (i.e. bigger address space, additional registers)...

It is true that the hardware manufacturers
advertise that there r a lot of applications...But it has to go lil'
bit further on that.


Well, the are a few professional applications (i.e. expensive MCAD
packages) for WIN64, but basically that's it. For the consumer markets
there are just the few games for which a 64bit client also is available,
but they hardly justify the move to Winxp 64bit...

Benjamin