Quote Originally Posted by 'Thodoros',index.php?page=Thread&postID=100945#pos t100945
The assistant on the shop told me that the32 cannot see more than 4gb ram but also the 64 cannot see more than 4gb ram.
He also told me that with the 64, i could have problem running some programmes like nero for example. Is that true? Did i bought the vista 32 while i could have the 64 and place my desired 8gb (or more) ram?
I'm total nab in hardwares, thanks for the help
Who is this shop? They have no idea what they're doing, and they shouldn't be feeding garbage info to customers. You could have some problems with programs not made for 64-bit OS's, but 32-bit emulation *usually* works without a problem. There's no way I'd limit myself of memory by going with a 32-bit OS now, unless I knew a specific application I needed to use did not work at all on a 64-bit OS.

At my work, our IT guy just built us a machine for building terrain databases (and he was on a major budget, so no $4000+ Dell Xeon business box), and it's got the following working fine:
q9650
asus p45 board (i'm not sure which model, but likely the p5q-e)
16gb ocz ddr2-800 (yes, it has at least 14GB of free memory)
vista 64 ultimate & Red Hat Linux dual-boot.
nero 8 (everything runs fine in 32-bit emulation mode, except for InCD and Scout)
We frequently have to burn very large files, and Nero is usually what we use. We don't have a problem with burning CDs and DVDs in Vista 64.