[garyhope]

Now if we can just get more 64 bit programs and software that’s compatible with everything,....

Anybody know why there aren’t more 64 bit programs and software out there that’s readily accessible now?

(And I may not know or understand anything I’m talking about here, but I just want more speed and Ram right now.)

Feel free to correct and educate me now. I want to know.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Send a letter to Adobe...they don’t seem to be in a hurry to get Flash, etc working on 64 bit....

[krb]

Anybody know why there aren’t more 64 bit programs and software out there that’s readily accessible now?

Because in the Windows world, for the most part 32 bit apps work just fine on the architecture. If you recompile for 64 bit and you don't really need:

• access to more than 2GB of user memory
• usage of a 64 bit ALU

Then all you've done is waste more of your data cache performance (because all of your pointers are 8 bytes instead of 4 bytes), and you've only gotten marginally higher performance gains out of it (because of the extra registers they added when they went to 64 bit).