Putra Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 What is the difference windows 7 x64 and x86? Where good?Tell in this post friend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 Well Windows 7 X64 is the latest Microsoft Operating system for the current generation of 64 bit processors, X86 refers to a family of instruction set architectures based on the Intel 8086 CPU which was launched in 1978. Two entirely different pieces of code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 x86 processors can only use 32-bit address space (up to about 3GB); x64 can use 64-bit address space - you can calculate yourself how much that possibily is (about 256TB?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vishal Gupta Posted December 16, 2011 Report Share Posted December 16, 2011 x64 (64-bit) is more advanced and new than x86 (32-bit) so obviously its always a wise idea to install x64 edition of Windows if your hardware supports it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted December 17, 2011 Report Share Posted December 17, 2011 x64 (64-bit) is more advanced and new than x86 (32-bit) ...x64 has nothing "more advanced" over x86; the only difference in the instruction set is that x64 can access 64-bit address space (above 4GB). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D4\/!d Posted December 17, 2011 Report Share Posted December 17, 2011 Well said Pat.In fact there is stuff that x64 cannot do - and which x86 can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vishal Gupta Posted December 17, 2011 Report Share Posted December 17, 2011 By using "more advanced" I meant the same. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 In fact there is stuff that x64 cannot do - and which x86 can.Really? That would be interesting to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 In fact there is stuff that x64 cannot do - and which x86 can.Really? That would be interesting to know.I wonder if David is referring to the fact that 64 bit processors can handle data in 32 or 64 bit data chunks so in some calculations the processor can operate faster ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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