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okay. so i have absolutely no idea what all of this 32/64 stuff means. i was going to get a macbook when it comes out in 13 inches (hopefully), would this be stupid? how much longer would i have to wait for this 64 bit thing to come out?
 
AidenShaw said:
Agree, even the people who don't need 64-bit addressing would want to have the extra speed that comes from x64 mode.


The x64 chips have native 32-bit mode - even native 16-bit mode!

Applications can be a mix of 32-bit and 64-bit applications - when a task is scheduled the core is put into the correct mode for that task.

Windows x64 Edition shows which processes are 32-bit jobs running in WOW64 by putting a "*32" by the name.

I'm not gonna get in the "64-bit" fray but I have a question Aiden..

In your attachment it shows your system running at 70% ?

Were you loading up a CPU intensive app at the time ?
 
Peace said:
I'm not gonna get in the "64-bit" fray but I have a question Aiden..

In your attachment it shows your system running at 70% ?

Were you loading up a CPU intensive app at the time ?

Yup, Windows.
 
Peace said:
I'm not gonna get in the "64-bit" fray but I have a question Aiden..

In your attachment it shows your system running at 70% ?

Were you loading up a CPU intensive app at the time ?
It also shows that 10.6 GiB of RAM is in use....

The system is an 8 CPU Opteron with 32 GiB of RAM. Yes, the "other users" were busy when I took that capture - 6 of the 8 CPUs were pegged at that moment.
 
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