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Originally Posted by stakanov
if your system has below 2 GB of RAM it is useful (in my experience) to stick to 32 bit.
The system otherwise risk to be sluggish and to appear overloaded, especially when you have below 2 GB.
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What? did you just made this up. How will the system become sluggish/overloaded if you have less than 2 GB RAM and install a 64-bit OS? You're talking complete nonsense here. I guess all my 64-bit systems with only 1.5 GB RAM are really sluggish/overloaded yet I haven't experienced this at all O.o
64-bit makes a lot of sense for specific applications, whether you have less than 2 GB or not, it doesn't matter. Multimedia, especially encoding audio or video which don't take much RAM anyway when encoding, will see a boost in speed. A small fact, x264 is ~15% faster on 64-bit systems regardless of the amount of RAM you have. 64-bit also exposes some registers that are only possible in a 64-bit wide CPU and again here some applications can take advantage of this, as is the case with x264