32bit vs 64bit

[Kenne]

Most people will not exceed 8 Gb ram use in their typical tasks (desktop, gaming) so 16 gigs is more than enough unless you use very heavy applications on your computer.

with ea nu OS since 3.1 in 1993, iv doubled the ram.
xp had 4 vista-64 had 8, and W7-64 will have 16.

[Bino]

with ea nu OS since 3.1 in 1993, iv doubled the ram.
xp had 4 vista-64 had 8, and W7-64 will have 16.

Unless you do heavy editing of large binary stuff like video, audio, or graphics, all Windows will do with the extra RAM is use it as hard disk cache.  Which is not all that bad a use for it, really.  Although personally, I'd save the $100 from the second 8 GB of RAM and put it toward a better video card.

[Kenne]

Unless you do heavy editing of large binary stuff like video, audio, or graphics, all Windows will do with the extra RAM is use it as hard disk cache.  Which is not all that bad a use for it, really.  Although personally, I'd save the $100 from the second 8 GB of RAM and put it toward a better video card.

760s not bad.

toms recommended it.

[ELD66]

32bit cannot use all of the power that most CPU's can use. So 64bit was introduced, depending on the spec's of your PC it will either have a major advantage or none at all.

 As for windows systems and memory allotment's,
Win 7
Basic 8gb, good for most games.
Pro 16gb, Even better for games.
Ultimate 196gb. < Most PC's useless above 16gb unless you do video rendering, or your motherboard, cpu, gpu are all geared for playing games at max performance.

[save]

With more than 12 gb you normally dont not need any pagefile under normal cicumstances, which in return makes the comp. faster.

[Karnak]

For what its worth, Classic Shell is what I installed for my wife on her Win8 laptop.

It most certainly does not act at all like Win7.  To claim it does is pretty egregious false advertising.

Win8 always wants to go back to its tablet interface.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

For what its worth, Classic Shell is what I installed for my wife on her Win8 laptop.

It most certainly does not act at all like Win7.  To claim it does is pretty egregious false advertising.

Win8 always wants to go back to its tablet interface.

Excuse me? That makes no sense at all. The only time it will possibly go back to the tablet interface is if you use some function that is hotwired to use it. All regular functions happen on regular desktop after installing classic shell. It even boots directly to the desktop.

[Karnak]

Excuse me? That makes no sense at all. The only time it will possibly go back to the tablet interface is if you use some function that is hotwired to use it. All regular functions happen on regular desktop after installing classic shell. It even boots directly to the desktop.

Every time you exit an application it goes to the Win8 tile interface.  There are other Win8isms as well.

So far as I can tell the only thing Classic Shell does is give a crappy version of the Win7 start menu and a desktop at start.  Everything else remains Win8.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Every time you exit an application it goes to the Win8 tile interface.  There are other Win8isms as well.

So far as I can tell the only thing Classic Shell does is give a crappy version of the Win7 start menu and a desktop at start.  Everything else remains Win8.

LOL no it doesn't unless you use metro applications which naturally will close to the metro screen. Give me one example where you use an app and it closes to metro screen pls.