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#1 Before February 2015

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What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

I know that my Windows 7 computer is 32 bit, but what's the difference? Is one better than the other? etc?


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#2 Before February 2015

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

Copypasta from Microsoft's website:

Microsoft wrote:

What is the difference between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows?
The terms 32-bit and 64-bit refer to the way a computer's processor (also called a CPU), handles information. The 64-bit version of Windows handles large amounts of random access memory (RAM) more effectively than a 32-bit system. For more details, go to A description of the differences between 32-bit versions of Windows Vista and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista online.

Basically having a 64-bit Windows helps when you have a decent amount of RAM and are multitasking, but I'd like if anybody who actually knows something about computer answers this.

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#3 Before February 2015

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

64 is more, so must be better (offtopic: 1900th post //ee.failforums.me/img/smilies/big_smile)

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#4 Before February 2015

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

It's the amount of buses that are attached to your processor.

Since buses carry information, you can assume that a 64-bit can perform 200% faster than a 32-bit, and 400% faster than a 16-bit.


Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.

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#5 Before February 2015

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

32 bit: Old, ok, well known, common
64 bit: Newer, faster, more RAM (Windows Server supports 2 TB of it (2000 GB)), better overall

#6 Before February 2015

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

TakoMan02 wrote:

It's the amount of buses that are attached to your processor.

Since buses carry information, you can assume that a 64-bit can perform 200% faster than a 32-bit, and 400% faster than a 16-bit.

Are you sure about that?   I don't know much about computers, but as a spriter, I know 32-bit isn't twice as better as 16-bit which isn't twice as beter as 8-bit.

#7 Before February 2015

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

i know the Nintendo 64 was 64 bit but didn't actually use of very much and that's about it.


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#8 Before February 2015

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

Different55 wrote:

i know the Nintendo 64 was 64 bit but didn't actually use of very much and that's about it.

If I remember correctly, 8-bit sprites have a limit of 3 colors, and 16-bit can use at least 12 colors, I think.   I don't know about 64-bit.

8-bit shot: SMB2Screen1-1.png
16-bit shot: 320px-DeathEggLavaReef.png
The 16-bit shot looks more than double the detail of the 8-bit shot.

#9 Before February 2015

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

The difference between 32-bit and 64-bit is about 32 bits.


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#10 Before February 2015

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

AzurePudding wrote:
Different55 wrote:

i know the Nintendo 64 was 64 bit but didn't actually use of very much and that's about it.

If I remember correctly, 8-bit sprites have a limit of 3 colors, and 16-bit can use at least 12 colors, I think.   I don't know about 64-bit.

8-bit shot: http://www.nesmaps.com/maps/SuperMarioB … een1-1.png
16-bit shot: http://sonic.neoseeker.com/w/i/sonic/th … vaReef.png
The 16-bit shot looks more than double the detail of the 8-bit shot.

Are we talking about color depth now?
8 bit images have a max limit of 256.
16 bit images have a max limit of 65,536 colors.
24 bit images have a limit of 16,777,216 colors.
The highest I can find is 48 bit with a limit of ~281,500,000,000,000 possible colors. There's really no point to this since your eyes stopped being able to tell the difference a long time ago.


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#11 Before February 2015

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

Different55 wrote:
AzurePudding wrote:
Different55 wrote:

i know the Nintendo 64 was 64 bit but didn't actually use of very much and that's about it.

If I remember correctly, 8-bit sprites have a limit of 3 colors, and 16-bit can use at least 12 colors, I think.   I don't know about 64-bit.

8-bit shot: http://www.nesmaps.com/maps/SuperMarioB … een1-1.png
16-bit shot: http://sonic.neoseeker.com/w/i/sonic/th … vaReef.png
The 16-bit shot looks more than double the detail of the 8-bit shot.

Are we talking about color depth now?
8 bit images have a max limit of 256.
16 bit images have a max limit of 65,536 colors.
24 bit images have a limit of 16,777,216 colors.
The highest I can find is 48 bit with a limit of ~281,500,000,000,000 possible colors. There's really no point to this since your eyes stopped being able to tell the difference a long time ago.

Well TakoMan said you can assume 64 bit is 200% better than 32-bit.   So I mentioned colors that the different bit types can allow.   What you just posted proves that.

#12 Before February 2015

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umYvFdU54Po

Perfect video to explain this topic. I think it's worth checking out.

#13 Before February 2015

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

With 32-bit systems the amount of RAM you can use is limited [3 - 4 gb i think] even if you have more RAM installed it won't use it. 64-bit systems can use huge amounts of RAM [ like billions of gigabytes if you really wanted to, though most people with 64-bit comps probably have about 8-16 gb ram]

So - 64-bit uses lots of RAM, doesn't need to use virtual memory, doesn't need to wait for one task to finish before starting another one - faster computerizingz.
[super techy people pls correct me if i explained this badly]

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#14 Before February 2015

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

Boh wrote:

With 32-bit systems the amount of RAM you can use is limited [3 - 4 gb i think] even if you have more RAM installed it won't use it. 64-bit systems can use huge amounts of RAM [ like billions of gigabytes if you really wanted to, though most people with 64-bit comps probably have about 8-16 gb ram]

Although 32-bit systems can use plenty more with things like PAE or PSE.

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#15 Before February 2015

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1WnjQpuexU

A video explaining most or all of this.

#16 Before February 2015

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

AzurePudding wrote:

Well TakoMan said you can assume 64 bit is 200% better than 32-bit.   So I mentioned colors that the different bit types can allow.   What you just posted proves that.

No; I said faster. I was talking about speed, not amount of colors you can make. Both 32 and 64 have, as Different55 pointed out, so many colors that you probably can't tell a difference.


Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.

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#17 Before February 2015

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

TakoMan02 wrote:
AzurePudding wrote:

Well TakoMan said you can assume 64 bit is 200% better than 32-bit.   So I mentioned colors that the different bit types can allow.   What you just posted proves that.

No; I said faster. I was talking about speed, not amount of colors you can make. Both 32 and 64 have, as Different55 pointed out, so many colors that you probably can't tell a difference.

after 24bit its overkill.


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#18 Before February 2015

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

Undead04 wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1WnjQpuexU

A video explaining most or all of this.

Thanks, this was helpful //ee.failforums.me/img/smilies/smile


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#19 2021-09-15 13:35:39

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Re: What's the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers?

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