First post, by bobsmith
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(When I say amd64, I'm referring to Windows XP x64, in order not to confuse you with Windows XP 64-bit Edition, which is for the Intel Itanium platform)
I know the amd64 version is based off a newer version of NT and has some features adopted from Server 2003 like GPT drive support, but are there any differences in performance when it comes to amd64 vs 32-bit? Specifically in multicore processors with 4GB of RAM or more (I would be very interested to know if there's any performance difference on multicore processors with 2000 vs XP aswell but that's a different question entirely). Is it worth installing 32-bit over the amd64 version, granted your hardware supports it and you don't plan on using any 16-bit software?
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