Upgrading my operating system

[kierules]

Hi guys, a few years back i bought a pc from currys which came with windows vista 32 bit and a windows 7 32 bit disk.

Since then however i have totally updated my system with a gaming system using the same hard drive and windows 32 bit. I really want to get a few more gigs of RAM (only have 4 at the moment) and was wondering if an OEM windows 64 bit disk will allow me to upgrade from 32 bit to 64 it or would i have to buy the full windows 7 disk which costs about £60 more.

Cheers guys

 

[Branden]

windows licenses will work for both 32 and 64 bit versions.
ex. if you have windows 7 pro 32-bit disc and license (key) you can use same license for windows 7 pro 64-bit, but you can only use it on ONE machine.

 

[willard]

Also, make sure your processor support 64 bit. The overwhelming majority of processors do these days, but the computer being a few years old means it might very well be a 32 bit CPU.

 

[moornix]

The upgrade version will work just fine.

 

[kierules]

My CPU is fine. The only things that i still have from the old desktop if the hard drive and optical drive.

I'm pretty sure an i5 2500k @ 4.3Ghz will handle it fine.

Cheers guys. Just gotta wait till next week when i get paid

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

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