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Originally Posted by lilstogi11
Don't you have to go with a 64 bit OS for 4 gigs of RAM to work well? That may be one of the reasons he may not b/c I know some games aren't built for 64x and a lot of other software doesn't run well on 64x either. That's one of the reasons I didn't go for 4 gigs. Or can it be cross compatible and work the software as a 32x install? I don't know much about os's and RAM.
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It's true that to get full use of 4gb of RAM you need a 64 bit machine.
As for campatibility, In December I built a Core2 Quad(Q6600) machine with 4gb of RAM, running Vista Ultimate x64, and I've had no issues running x86 applications. There are some apps which have
install issues, but that's due to the mfg, not Vista x64.
EDIT: Just so no one yells, XP x64 had issues early on, but the Vista x64 release has been relitivily stable.