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Should I upgrade my dell precision 380 to 64 bit?

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K-Man   10-08-2009 at 08:24:35 PM

Should I upgrade my dell precision 380 to 64 bit? Are there known issues with doing this upgrade?

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HappyBison   10-08-2009 at 08:42:10 PM
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It depends on your tasks. If you don't do anything 64-bit specific, you won't see any difference so you should check other parameters while doing an upgrade (CPU speed, Memory capacity, etc).

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K-Man   10-08-2009 at 09:38:35 PM
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Thanks for the info HB. I really don't perform a lot of 64-bit tasks at present, but will be doing so in the future. According to Dell the 380 is very robust and will probably be fine with the upgrade. Unfortunately Dell has led me astray before with things like this. I was just curious to see if anyone had actually performed this upgrade with a 380. I'm also upgrading to Windows 7 and thought I'd check into the 64-bit as well.

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rand_79   10-09-2009 at 12:33:42 AM
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do you have more than 4gb of ram.. if no = dont need 64bit.

If you have more than 4gb of ram you need 64bit.

if you run legacy applications.. dont goto 64bit.

If you have 4gb exactly.. 64bit will provide minimal benefits .. might be worth it.

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outlw6669   10-09-2009 at 10:39:23 AM
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Welcome to the forums!

There is nothing to upgrade really.
Your Dell Precision Workstation 380 is already a 64 bit machine :/

If you are getting a new version of Windows for it (Win 7 as stated...) there is NO reason not to get the x64 version.
Performance between the x32 and x64 versions is virtually identical, that is unless the application you are using could use more than 2Gb of RAM (the most any single application can use under x32 without tweaking).
Seeing as you are using a workstation, I would assume that your software has x64 versions and, when/if you work with large files/memory dependent apps, x64 is far superior.

Get the x64 version, there is no good reason not to.

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