OPINIONS SOUGHT - Do I Upgrade to 64 bit?

[firenice03]

My plugged nickle..  ;D

Upside - you do have the option...
Downside some cost to make it most effective...
Besides application support - Chrome vs Chromium or others not supporting...

You mention the pc will accept a 64-bit version but you have 3gb ram which is right up against 32-bits max capability of ram. It sounds like you have 3 slots all full with 1gb which will need to be tossed if upgrading to 3x2gb for 6gb total.. So cost of new + throw out old for the cost of the machine...

The real upside to the OS side of 64-bit is the use of additional ram - at a high level...

So you would have to rip and remove; back up, wipe clean and reinstall LL 64-bit then set back up.. Time...

If you're ok in the current state and not wanting to upgrade ram - I would ride it out as is. If something comes along where you need to reinstall LL (freshen up or new series) then you could go the 64-bit route and ram could be added at anytime... Or perhaps an overall system upgrade by the time 32-bit is put to pasture.... 8) 8)

Only caveat.. Some systems run 32-bit better than 64-bit especially with lower ram amounts... This is where I would focus researching...


[member=494]rokytnji[/member]
If you have an 8gb system running on 32-bit..??... I would highly suggest you go to 64-bit  8)
Just to make full use of the ram.. (32-bit only uses 4gb)

I run 32 bit on this I5 with 8 gig of ram. But i don't care about not being able to run google-chrome browser or other applications that dropped 32 bit support.
The advantage of 64 bit is more application availability I guess.  But it is something i do not lose sleep over.