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Well jaster... 32bit is not soo bad. I have sworn by Vista since its release, sine it preformed smoother for me than XP on my Wifi, and then in october/novemberish I moved to 64-bit and swore I would never go back to less than Windows Kernel 6.0.02 64-bit edition.
I just built a New PC. It has no OS on it... and my Zalman 8800GTX waterblocks just came in today...
It has 8gigs of OCZ HPC ram, a q9300 (yes you 45nm hating $%^bags, I need cores 3 and 4, and the lower temps of the 45nm, coupled with the better LOW OC - I will make it Stable at 3.2 at stock voltage!!!), a zalman reserator v1 (Ionic breeze looking thing), 2x250gb 7200.10's in RAID 0 for OS and Programs w/ 64kb stripe, and 2x160gb WD in RAID 0 for Page File / data storage w/ 64kb stripe, 2 8800GTX"ae" (plural?), and the fast booting MSI P7N Diamond - and get this...
I am putting 32bit XP (2000 if I can, it beats the pants off of any OS ever, XP, OSX, Linux, etc... would do 32bit vista but I don't want to use another vista key...) AND 64bit Vista on this thing.
64bit screws with my Wifi speeds, my Sound drivers (used to use a Razer AC-1, may again...), Dragon Naturally Speaking 9, and occasionally looses my SATA Optical drive...
32bit sux in general, and I know I will only have use of 2.5gb of Ram... but so what?
Basically:
1) 32bit is not that bad. Unless you want The Witcher, maybe Crysis, maybe Supreme Comander, or As5in's Creed... you will not miss those extra gigs.
2) worse than lack of 64bit is lack of linux. Sheesh... think of how fast you could think command lines if you assigned the common phrases to NIA commands...
3) how freaking hard will it be to make the sucker work in 64bit... weakminded little... listen... I am a hardware god, but my software skills are minimal... none-the-less I can still force all my exe's to run in 64bit...
Jaster check hyperpoop.