32 or 64 bit?

[jammyh]

Last week I purchased a Nero 9850HD with a few upgrades, and fitted with a 32 bit O.S. but I now realise this may has been a mistake, as one of the mods was 8gb RAM which I see from various members comments that only 3GB will be recognised out of the 8GB fitted, so that was a waste of money!
When Windows7 arrives and I purchased a 64 bit version would this be O.K. on my P.C.? I would be grateful of any advice.

[MidnightDraven]

Yes 32bit OS will only recognise 3GB of RAM, and apparently though can show 3.5GB with a 512MB RAM stick, it won't use that RAM stick.
Windows! weirdos! lol

Although I chose 64bit when I bought my 9850 Nero, I now see they are only offering 64bit OS (desite reading they are out of windows disks for 64bit).
But basically, purchasing windows 7 64 bit will be fine to run on your pc, as i'm running vista 64bit fine.
most if not all pc's running vista can run windows 7.

[Eejit]

Hi jammyh
If you want, you can head over to Microsoft, sign up for the RC and download the 64bit Release Candidate to try. Works like a dream and wont stop working until June 2010

Hope this helps

[jammyh]

Hello Eejit,
Thanks for that great piece of advice, I downloaded the 64-bit Windows 7
R.C. and it's a wonderful Operating System, personally I think it's so much better than Vista, so much smoother & faster and feels very stable.
I had no problem with drivers for printer & scanner but did with Microsoft OneCare anti-virus !! so I installed AVG free version 8.5 without a problem.
Thanks once again
Regards

Jammyh