64bit OS for dell XPS 710?

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Hi there   I have recently bought a dell XPS 710 but the machine came with windows XP home edition so am looking to upgrade the OS. As I plan to have somewhere between 4-8gb ram in the machine I read somewhere that XP 32bit will not register the full amount of memory over around 2gb. Does anyone know if this is true?   I so i am thinking of installing a 64bit OS of XP professinal. Will this solve the problem and register all of my memory? Also will I have issues running software i own for the 32bit OS such as Adobe products etc and will games such battlefield 2 run fine and is there any other issues people have had with running XP 64bit?   Many thanks   Trev

russell_314 · Answer

codieskid wrote:

Hi there

I have recently bought a dell XPS 710 but the machine came with windows XP home edition so am looking to upgrade the OS. As I plan to have somewhere between 4-8gb ram in the machine I read somewhere that XP 32bit will not register the full amount of memory over around 2gb. Does anyone know if this is true?

I so i am thinking of installing a 64bit OS of XP professinal. Will this solve the problem and register all of my memory? Also will I have issues running software i own for the 32bit OS such as Adobe products etc and will games such battlefield 2 run fine and is there any other issues people have had with running XP 64bit?

Many thanks

Trev

It is true that you need a 64 Bit OS to register more than 4 GB's of RAM. I'm just curious but why do you want 4-8 GB's of RAM? Battlefield 2 will run on Windows XP 64. As for other software or games working your best bet would be look on the box or website for system requirements.

Bertram28 · Answer

I have had few problem running Win XP Pro x64 with 3 GB of RAM on a XPS 700 since Dell released BIOS 1.1.6. I do have issues with Creative labs X-FI sound distortion that Creative attributes to NVIDIA chipsets. Creative's software has a mind of its own: settings change randomly. Razor is not able to get its copperhead mouse to be recognixed and Razor tarantula keyboard also has hum in headphone out. Just hoping motherboard replacement will address what seems to be PCI timing issues for NVIDIA nForcre4 and nForce5 chipsets, especially if using RAID and / or SLI. Not x64 issues but chipset issues.   Before you jump, download x64 drivers from Dell and other manufacturer sites. This way you can confirm that you will not loose one or more devices. Win x64 MUST have x64 drivers and tolerates most x32 software. You will notice improved hard drive benchmarks. Highly recommend Diskeeper for x64 bit systems, measured 20% + improvement using same hard drive banchmarks. Also will have fewer malware isues and virus threats. Hard to find x64 anti-virus software-Symantec Corp. edition works.   You may want to wait for motherbaord replacement and switch to Vista in one of its x64 forms then.

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