64 or 32 bit OS?

[ASAP_Gooby]

This will probably be a dumb and obvious question, but does the instruction set of a processor determine the choice between a 32-bit and 64-bit OS? I just want to be sure because the processor I'm getting [Intel Core i7-5820K] says it can run 64-bit.

[BlueX]

The terms 32-bit and 64-bit refer to the way a computer's processor (also called a CPU), handles information. The 64-bit version of Windows handles large amounts of random access memory (RAM) more effectively than a 32-bit system.

 

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/32-bit-and-64-bit-windows#1TC=windows-7

 

So yes, it depends on your CPU.

[Naeaes]

3 minutes ago, ASAP_Gooby said:

This will probably be a dumb and obvious question, but does the instruction set of a processor determine the choice between a 32-bit and 64-bit OS? I just want to be sure because the processor I'm getting [Intel Core i7-5820K] says it can run 64-bit.

Get 64-bit. The CPUs have been able to run 64-bit OS for roughly ten years now. Zero reason to get a 32-bit OS now. It'd only cause you trouble.

[Orboe]

Aww he beat me here. 

[ASAP_Gooby]

Lmao, thanks guys

[GoodBytes]

Install 32-bit only for really specific compatibility issue with a peripheral (usually a super old one (that is more than 10 years)), or you need to run a 16-bit DOS software, which DOSBox can't help you.

 

Another possible reason why to install 32-bit:

 -> If you find you have too much RAM and want to limit it out to ~3.5GB

 -> If you have more than 3TB of HDD space in a drive partition and you think it too much to handle and want to cut it out.

 -> Your computer is too fast for you, and you are trying to slow it down.

[DXMember]

Welcome to 2006

[Guest]

3 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Install 32-bit only for really specific compatibility issue with a peripheral (usually a super old one (that is more than 10 years)), or you need to run a 16-bit DOS software, which DOSBox can't help you.

 

Another possible reason why to install 32-bit:

 -> If you find you have too much RAM and want to limit it out to ~3.5GB

 -> If you have more than 3TB of HDD space in a drive partition and you think it too much to handle and want to cut it out.

 -> Your computer is too fast for you, and you are trying to slow it down.

NVMe T00 FAST!!11!!11!111

 

SSSSTTTTAAAAHHHPPP!!!11!11!111

[GoodBytes]

58 minutes ago, IAmLamp said:

NVMe T00 FAST!!11!!11!111

 

SSSSTTTTAAAAHHHPPP!!!11!11!111

Your joking, but back in the old old old days of home PCs, they had a Turbo button....

Why would one want to turn it off? (ok well in the very early days, yes, but later on: no. Confusing I know, but bellow is a video explaining the good old days, and that is also why later cases had a digit screen showing your clock rate so that people stop getting confused).

 

[Guest]

3 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

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so they couldn't do something about it in software? they had to use a dedicated hardware button? a bit strange 

[GoodBytes]

39 minutes ago, IAmLamp said:

so they couldn't do something about it in software? they had to use a dedicated hardware button? a bit strange 

Back in the days, anything fancy like software control BIOS to change the clock speed, was super costly.

Everything was super simple back in the days, due to cost.

 

For example, floppies:

This 5.25inch floppy could only store 1.25MB! This is because it cost a lot of money. It cost so much, that the casing around it, is in pastic, but flexible like paper.

 

-> You pressed on it: Dead. Buy a new one

-> You stored it in a place where it is a bit too humid place: Dead. Buy a new one.

-> You placed it next to a pair of speaker: Corrupted

-> Dust on it: Dead

-> You touched the surface of the disk: Dead

-> You didn't put it on the paper sleeve the second you pull it out of the system as you were a bit lazy that moment: Dead

-> It doesn't like you: Dead

 

Was terrible! And EACH was $5 U.S  in ~1982. So that is like: ~12.60$ U.S today. Yea... and that is with all these issues listed above. And yea.. we knew it was shit, but it cost so darn much! Not to mention the computer!

Of course, it got down in price, and then we had diskettes where they could could hold 1.44MB. Not much more, but they were smaller, faster, and had a hard plastic case to make them drastically more reliable, AND costs 1-2$ each in the early 2000's, and was cheaper in larger quantities, similar to DVD's (with case)

 

Another example, Graphics cards. Back in the days, we had no graphics cards like today. They were more video adapters, than graphics cards. They did no 3D, or 2D acceleration. The CPU was doing the drawing! There was no GPU it self. Only later where we started to have 3D on computers that were """"complex"""", we had an actual processor in the graphic adapter, forming what is known today as: Graphical Processing Unit or GPU. To clarify: I am talking about PC space here. You did have Silicon Graphics and other that did GPUs in the late 80's, but that was so expensive, no one had one, unless you were you lucky guy working at a big company, to do job critical thing that required 3D, basically. Anyway, because it was using the CPU to draw, that is why Windows was ugly looking back in the early days.

 

Anyway this is waaaay off topic.