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Malenko:
I would put the newer 4GB in and run WinXP32 and see how it runs. If you want a world of difference, get an SSD drive for the OS  8)

Dawgz Rule:
+1 on the SSD.

keilmillerjr:
The main benefit of 64-bit over 32-bit is that you no longer have a 2gb file size limit, and you are able to have more than 4gb of ram. Your video card and bios also take up with 4gb limit in 32-bit as well.

Is 64-bit faster than 32-bit? As far as I can tell, no. However, 64-bit will allow you to address more memory and virtual memory. You could build a faster computer with the correct components. You are limited with 32-bit.

Sorry you went through all that trouble. You should upgrade your computer with more ram anyways. Ram is cheap now. My minimum requirement for ram I suggest for anyone is currently at 4gb.

404:

--- Quote from: cmoses on July 01, 2013, 03:12:01 pm ---I have a Asus P5GC-MX/1333 motherboard with a Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz CPU, 2MB of RAM and a 1MB nVidia 9400GT video card that I have been setting up for a cocktail cabinet that I am building.  I have Windows XP 32 bit on there and it has been running everything pretty well even with HLSL on.  I recently purchased 4MB of RAM and decided that I would load Windows XP64 on there thinking I would get a boost to the OS and also from running MAME64.  Well I tried it out and it seemed to run slower than when I had 2MB and Win XP32.  I also tried Windows 7 x64 and it seemed slow as well.  I didn't go in and do a lot of tweaking with either Win XP64 or Win 7x64 but they both seemed to be running slower even just at the OS level.  Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas on the issue.  Could there be some setting or something that needs to be tweaked on the motherboard for x64 OSes?

With this system what is the consensus as to OS that should be running on there.  I have access to Windows XP 32 & 64 bit as well as Windows 7 32 & 64 bit.

Thanks

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xp x64 has quite a few more services running in the background. It is far more catered to the IT and deployment crowd than for public consumption. The issue with win 7 x64 is that the amount of memory overhead is far more simply because it's a newer OS with more features.

did you Mame benchmark your previous rig? If so, what are your numbers then and now?

Fursphere:

--- Quote from: Malenko on July 01, 2013, 04:14:54 pm ---I would put the newer 4GB in and run WinXP32 and see how it runs. If you want a world of difference, get an SSD drive for the OS  8)

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So you can only use 3GB of it?  No thanks.

Go Win7 x64.

Make sure you install _ALL_ the correct drivers.  Video, audio, chipset, I/O, etc. 

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