This might sound like a duplicate but i couldn't find a clear answer in any of the questions answered in this site or any other.
I have a laptop with AMD Athlon(tm) II Dual-Core M320 processor which supports 64-bit and it has 3GB DDR2 RAM.
Currently I am having Windows 7 64-bit OS installed.Now i'm about to upgrade it to Windows 8.I was wondering whether i should go for a 64-bit one or 32-bit one…
Now i know that 64-bit Operating System is better if you have a RAM higher than or equal to 4GB.
Since i have a processor which supports 64-bit would it be a disadvantage to go for a 32-bit OS?
Which Operating System Would be best for me, X64 or X86 ?
Best Answer
While some processes my have a larger memory footprint in their 32-bit variants the difference is usually negligable, so I would go with 64-bit for the following reasons:
Of course there are a couple of reasons why you might want to go for 32-bit: