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Im old enough to remember the transistion from 16bit to 32bit, when the argument was "32bit? is it really needed?"
It seems obvious now, 32bit was indeed needed. However, I am having a hard time seeing the advantages of 64bit. Sure it gives the ability to access terabytes of memory, but from what I can see thats about the only advantage? The only thing 64-bit brings is a huge address range. There is no real speed increase apart from the obvious GHz increase which goes with new technology. Even with storing data in the registers, 32-bit processors are easily fast enough for most desktop needs.
Unless you are a massive multinational company with a database consisting of a billion entries then you would never need that amount of memory. This is all theoritical of cause, can you imagine the engineering challenge of producing a memory module which is 512GB????
Not even hard drives are that big (unless I have missed something in the last few months).
Okay, dont get me wrong. I love seeing new technology come out, and sure I will probably invest in a 64bit computer in a few months, its just a strange thing to see. I would have thourght companies would be looking for a replacement for the silicon transistor before worrying about 64-bit processors!
With silicon reaching its limits soon, there isnt going to be massive speed increases. I think silicon transistors will reach their limit within a couple of years, and individual processors wont get past about 6GHz or 7GHz. I might be wrong about this, but silicon is bound to reach a limit fairly soon.
The motherboards which are out at the moment for 64-bit processors should in theory support 2TB of memory...but how long is it going to be until that quantity of memory is available. (2040?)
Okay, going back to the original statement, the history between 16 and 32 bit. Everyone thought that 8mb was overkill at one point, then when Pentiums came out with 32mb that was considered insane!. But somehow I feel this is different. The difference between 4GB and 2TB is way more than the difference between 16MB and 4GB ever was.
Just for a bit of math, look at this:
2TB = 2048GB = 2097152MB = 2147483648KB!
The TB limit might as well be infinite.
32-bit processors can access 4GB of memory. I doubt anyone on this board has that amount of combined (video + ram) memory. Certainly there is no desktop application which requires that amount. In fact, having 1GB of RAM installed and a 256MB graphics card is easily enough for any user! In a few years time maybe 2GB will be needed, but it will be decades, if ever, until a 64bit amount of memory is required!
This post doesnt really have much of a point, its just something I thought I would bring up. I would like to hear other peoples opinions on 64-bit CPUs.
Dont bother flaming me down if you dont agree with my arguement. Just give me your view. Im sure im wrong about something!
(I just resent having to buy a 64bit version of windows! LOL)
Im old enough to remember the transistion from 16bit to 32bit, when the argument was "32bit? is it really needed?"
It seems obvious now, 32bit was indeed needed. However, I am having a hard time seeing the advantages of 64bit. Sure it gives the ability to access terabytes of memory, but from what I can see thats about the only advantage? The only thing 64-bit brings is a huge address range. There is no real speed increase apart from the obvious GHz increase which goes with new technology. Even with storing data in the registers, 32-bit processors are easily fast enough for most desktop needs.
Unless you are a massive multinational company with a database consisting of a billion entries then you would never need that amount of memory. This is all theoritical of cause, can you imagine the engineering challenge of producing a memory module which is 512GB????
Not even hard drives are that big (unless I have missed something in the last few months).
Okay, dont get me wrong. I love seeing new technology come out, and sure I will probably invest in a 64bit computer in a few months, its just a strange thing to see. I would have thourght companies would be looking for a replacement for the silicon transistor before worrying about 64-bit processors!
With silicon reaching its limits soon, there isnt going to be massive speed increases. I think silicon transistors will reach their limit within a couple of years, and individual processors wont get past about 6GHz or 7GHz. I might be wrong about this, but silicon is bound to reach a limit fairly soon.
The motherboards which are out at the moment for 64-bit processors should in theory support 2TB of memory...but how long is it going to be until that quantity of memory is available. (2040?)
Okay, going back to the original statement, the history between 16 and 32 bit. Everyone thought that 8mb was overkill at one point, then when Pentiums came out with 32mb that was considered insane!. But somehow I feel this is different. The difference between 4GB and 2TB is way more than the difference between 16MB and 4GB ever was.
Just for a bit of math, look at this:
2TB = 2048GB = 2097152MB = 2147483648KB!
The TB limit might as well be infinite.
32-bit processors can access 4GB of memory. I doubt anyone on this board has that amount of combined (video + ram) memory. Certainly there is no desktop application which requires that amount. In fact, having 1GB of RAM installed and a 256MB graphics card is easily enough for any user! In a few years time maybe 2GB will be needed, but it will be decades, if ever, until a 64bit amount of memory is required!
This post doesnt really have much of a point, its just something I thought I would bring up. I would like to hear other peoples opinions on 64-bit CPUs.
Dont bother flaming me down if you dont agree with my arguement. Just give me your view. Im sure im wrong about something!
(I just resent having to buy a 64bit version of windows! LOL)
. I just now opened up the lid on it, and it has a 16 meg DRAM in it, so I must be getting the 8 megs from what it was built with. Thanks for pointing out my ignorance. I never even thought about opening it up to see.
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