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I'm gonna be building a new gaming PC which means i'll have to manually install windows into my motherboard. I think i know how to with the boot drives but i don't know if it's 32x or 64x windows my hardware supports or if it supports both or if it doesn't matter?

 

Motherboard: Asus Prime Z370-A

 

 

 

Again. I'm a newbie trying to build a PC so please keep it simple.

 

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64 bit of course. 32 bit will limit your use of hardware.

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64 bit. 32 bit can only use up to 4gb ram and also has a little bit worse performance.

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3 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

64 bit of course. 32 bit will limit your use of hardware.

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3 hours ago, Darkknight456 said:

I'm gonna be building a new gaming PC which means i'll have to manually install windows into my motherboard.

You do not install Windows on motherboards. You install Windows on your storage device (HDD or SSD)

 

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I think i know how to with the boot drives but i don't know if it's 32x or 64x windows my hardware supports or if it supports both or if it doesn't matter?

If your computer is manufacture 2007 and isn't running on an Intel Atom Silverthorne or Lincroft, your system is 64-bit compatible.

 

Before installing Windows 8 or 10, be sure the following is setup correctly in your UEFI:

  1. CSM (Compatibility Support Module) is disabled
  2. SATA controller is set to AHCI mode (assuming you have an HDD or SSD on SATA connection and no RAID setup)
  3. UEFI mode is NOT set to Legacy mode (nothing should be set to legacy)
  4. Secure Boot enabled
  5. If you have something with "Windows 8" or "Windows 10" set it as enable.

When you boot your Windows 10 disk, be sure to pick, from the boot device list: "UEFI : <Drive name>", and not just "<Drive name>".

 

(The above will not work as is under Windows 7 as is, as Windows 7 dates back some technologies mentioned and may not function)

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There are many good reasons to run 64-bit Windows, but they've already been mentioned, so I won't talk about them. I'll mention the advantages of 32-bit:

 

- NTVDM (NT Virtual DOS Machine, MS-DOS compatibility in other words, running DOOM!!!!)

- compatible with older devices (2000/XP-era)

 

The disadvantages

- limited to just under 4GB of memory

- no UEFI support (not really a disadvantage, especially if you're running Windows 7)

- incompatible with newer devices (or any devices in XP x64) -- essentially Windows 8/10 era (Vista/7 era devices should support 32-bit and 64-bit)

 

Note that what I said applies to Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10, their server counterparts, and even the Windows XP AMD64 edition (as well as the Server 2003 x64).

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10 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

You do not install Windows on motherboards. You install Windows on your storage device (HDD or SSD)

 

If your computer is manufacture 2007 and isn't running on an Intel Atom Silverthorne or Lincroft, your system is 64-bit compatible.

 

Before installing Windows 8 or 10, be sure the following is setup correctly in your UEFI:

  1. CSM (Compatibility Support Module) is disabled
  2. SATA controller is set to AHCI mode (assuming you have an HDD or SSD on SATA connection and no RAID setup)
  3. UEFI mode is NOT set to Legacy mode (nothing should be set to legacy)
  4. Secure Boot enabled
  5. If you have something with "Windows 8" or "Windows 10" set it as enable.

When you boot your Windows 10 disk, be sure to pick, from the boot device list: "UEFI : <Drive name>", and not just "<Drive name>".

 

(The above will not work as is under Windows 7 as is, as Windows 7 dates back some technologies mentioned and may not function)

Is there a video tutorial of this anywhere? I feel like i'd understand a bit better if i saw it infront of me.

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8 hours ago, Darkknight456 said:

Is there a video tutorial of this anywhere? I feel like i'd understand a bit better if i saw it infront of me.

Not that I know off. But maybe.

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21 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

Not that I know off. But maybe.

And the settings you told me to set it to. Does it come with those right settings or do i have to do it manually?

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14 hours ago, Darkknight456 said:

And the settings you told me to set it to. Does it come with those right settings or do i have to do it manually?

Motherboard manufactures defaults settings doesn't assume that you'll build this awesome computer with the latest and greatest tech and run the latest OS. They set default settings to diminish support calls. In other words, they are set so that (depending on the age of the motherboard) Windows 7 (even Windows XP, still) can be installed, and not Windows 8 or 10. So things are set to "legacy". So Windows 10 will install in it, as so very old versions of Windows7, but if you plan to install Windows 10, you won't have the ultimate best experience possible, such as not getting secure Boot security feature, not getting very fast boot time, and things like that.

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2 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Motherboard manufactures defaults settings doesn't assume that you'll build this awesome computer with the latest and greatest tech and run the latest OS. They set default settings to diminish support calls. In other words, they are set so that (depending on the age of the motherboard) Windows 7 (even Windows XP, still) can be installed, and not Windows 8 or 10. So things are set to "legacy". So Windows 10 will install in it, as so very old versions of Windows7, but if you plan to install Windows 10, you won't have the ultimate best experience possible, such as not getting secure Boot security feature, not getting very fast boot time, and things like that.

Yeah that makes sense. But me who has never even opened BIOS before and now i got to change some settings is pretty scary. 

Just hoping i won't mess anything up too badly.

 

Thanks.

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5 hours ago, Darkknight456 said:

Yeah that makes sense. But me who has never even opened BIOS before and now i got to change some settings is pretty scary. 

Just hoping i won't mess anything up too badly.

 

Thanks.

As long as you don't touch voltages and frequencies, and fan speeds, you are fine.

Either way you need to set the date and time.

 

The motherboard comes with an instruction manual with pictures and explanantions. if you have any questions about a setting, let us know.

 

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21 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

As long as you don't touch voltages and frequencies, and fan speeds, you are fine.

Either way you need to set the date and time.

 

The motherboard comes with an instruction manual with pictures and explanantions. if you have any questions about a setting, let us know.

 

Alright thanks :)

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