Re: Installing 32bit vista ultimate on a 64 bit hardware

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Hi,

You can run the 32-bit version on the 64-bit hardware, but it's unnecessary. I find that x64 runs just fine on 2GB of ram.

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"mahesh_australia" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e0f58269d923567f4cdd3fcccf7746e2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi,

I have a laptop which came with 64 bit vista ultimate pre-installed. I
read online that 64 bit vista ultimate requires minimum 4G RAM for good
performance. Since, I have only 2G RAM (max support by hardware) I
thought of migrating to 32 bit vista ultimate.

Please advise if running 32 bit vista ultimate on a 64 bit hardware
(Intel Core2Duo T7200, 2.0 GHz) with 2G RAM have any significant
performance boost?

Thank you,
Mahesh


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mahesh_australia

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