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| |  Posted 2/2/2008 3:42:15 PM | |
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| Hi I'm new to the forums but quick to ask for help Any way back in August I bought the Upgrade to windows Vista Ultimate (came with 32bit and 64bit DVD's) . I had XP home. So far I have been overall happy with my Vista experience but am considering upgrading from 32 bit to 64 bit. I want to be able to use up to four gigs of ram, As I understand I will need 64bit to do this as 32bit is only capable of 3 gigs Of RAM.
So Can I put the 64bit upgrade disc into my drive and just go from 32 bit to 64 it (Of course I will need to get new drivers) Or will I have to format my drive, install XP and then install 64bit vista? And will I be able to use my product Key twice if I have already registered 32bit? Thanks.
P.S I run alot of games and consider myself more of a power user than a casual PC user. How are drivers for Vista 64bit now? And is it worth it or should I just use 3 gigs of ram? Another reason I want to go to 64bit is because I plan on this year getting a 1 gig Video card, and If I'm correct 32 bit would subtract that from my installed ram.
BFG Nvidia Geforce 8600GTS OC
2gb DDR2
BFG 650wPSU
Intel Core 2 quad Q6600
EVGA Nforce 650i Ultra
250GB HDD
Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit. |
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| | | | Posted 2/3/2008 9:07:51 AM | |
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| Please do a search before you post a new topic. The following topic already addresses upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit:
http://www.vistaforums.com/Forum/Topic13823-41-1.aspx
ASUS A832nSLI-Deluxe, AMD 64X2 4400 OC 2.4GHz, 3GB OCZ,
Running: XP Pro, Vista Ultimate 32-bit, Vista Business, Ubuntu 7.10, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
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