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Hyper Tails
April 13th, 2010, 04:39 PM
I'm upgrading my ram from 2 gigs to 8 gigs of ram.

And I have the 32-bit version of windows 7 and the 64-bit version of ubuntu.

I bought the upgrade version of windows 7 and when my ram comes I need to install the 64-bit version of windows 7 and I was woundering how I can covert my current version of windows to 64-bit.

Just wanna make a early prepartion

thanks

_h_
April 13th, 2010, 04:43 PM
You'd have to go buy (or get via other methods) a 64bit version of Windows, as you can't upgrade from 32bit -> 64bit.

tom66
April 13th, 2010, 05:14 PM
I think it involves a complete reinstall.

NCLI
April 13th, 2010, 06:30 PM
I think it involves a complete reinstall.

It agree. I don't know of any way to upgrade from 32-bit Win7 to 64.

HansKisaragi
April 13th, 2010, 06:35 PM
yep.. Not possible to upgrade and you need to get a 64bit version.

AFAIK MS used to give away free 64bit version to 32bit owners but I don't know if they do it any more.

Hyper Tails
April 13th, 2010, 09:57 PM
yep.. Not possible to upgrade and you need to get a 64bit version.

AFAIK MS used to give away free 64bit version to 32bit owners but I don't know if they do it any more.

My upgrade came with both the 32-bit and 64-bit dvds so I don't need to get one

MooPi
April 13th, 2010, 10:50 PM
I have yet to reach the 4gig mark on memory used and I'm a fairly heavy user at times. So my question is what are you going to do with 8 gigs of ram ?

tom66
April 14th, 2010, 01:24 AM
I have yet to reach the 4gig mark on memory used and I'm a fairly heavy user at times. So my question is what are you going to do with 8 gigs of ram ?

RAM isn't just used for program memory. It is often used for disk cache. So if you only use 2 GB of that 8 GB, then you have an effective 6 GB disk cache (minus kernel overhead etc.) It also stops the system from using swap which is very slow.

Crunchy the Headcrab
April 14th, 2010, 01:29 AM
I've found that having a HUGE amount of Ram is nice to easily run virtual machines.

Of course you have to have the processing power to handle it also.

Hyper Tails
April 15th, 2010, 03:02 PM
I've found that having a HUGE amount of Ram is nice to easily run virtual machines.

Of course you have to have the processing power to handle it also.

True, True

PhoHammer
April 15th, 2010, 03:47 PM
My upgrade came with both the 32-bit and 64-bit dvds so I don't need to get one

I will soon do the same thing (reinstall with 64-bit Win7 from an upgrade 32-bit install) and from what I have read, I think your product key should work for either 32 or 64-bit.