[martymas]

hi team my next door bought a win7 64bit
ultimate

and he gave it to me to load on my 32bit win 7
asit was loading a message saying
your cpu isnt compatable
to 64 bit
gee have i had this compt that long
is it out of date or is 64 bit different
if so do i need to buy a 64 bit
sys of do i just change the cpu
ive biun so long away from this forum
ime lost
hope you can help

thanks

martymas

[TheTerrorist_75]

You will need to find out if your motherboard supports a 64-bit CPU. You will not gain much when it comes to normal computer usage by upgrading to a 64-bit operating system.

[martymas]

TheTerrorist_75, on 22 May 2012 - 04:02 PM, said:

You will need to find out if your motherboard supports a 64-bit CPU. You will not gain much when it comes to normal computer usage by upgrading to a 64-bit operating system.

thanks TT

AT THE MOMENT MY SYS IS WORKING WELL

I HAVE WIN 7

32BIT SOI DONT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE

BUT THANKS TO THIS BOARD I GET GOOD ADVICE

AGAIN THANKS

[Pete_C]

Basically it refers to the size of the data packet that the CPU can handle.
In 32 bit (X86) systems, the processor handles data in chunks of 4 Bytes (32 bits) at a time. Each instruction set or chunk of data can have no more than 32 characters. This also limits the number of memory addresses etc.
With a 64 bit processor, each chunk of data is 64 characters. This allows for a significantly larger number of memory addresses, faster processing and transfer of data (almost twice as much data per CPU cycle)
Now a 64 bit processor can handle 32 bit data, but not the other way around.

[MrBill]

A little reading for you.

http://windows.micro...ions?SignedIn=1

[Earth911]

Windows 64 bit can handle up to 194 GB ram. I have 12GB Ran running