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With Intel and AMD working on 128bit chips/CPU's, microsoft is heading also to support
128bit.
Looks like Windows 8 will likely be 64 and 128 bit, thus dumping 32 bit.
Windows 8 is a few years away i'm sure :chat:
But i think the 128bit CPU's should be with us soon :)
BrainD4m4ge
10-10-2009, 17:29
With Intel and AMD working on 128bit chips/CPU's, microsoft is heading also to support
128bit.
Looks like Windows 8 will likely be 64 and 128 bit, thus dumping 32 bit.
Windows 8 is a few years away i'm sure :chat:
But i think the 128bit CPU's should be with us soon :)
Full driver support is issue with 64 bit, and they start with making 128, hehe :)
nooby question here, what do those 32/64/128 bit windows mean. i guess the bigger the number the happier we all are but why?
i guess the bigger the number the happier we all are but why?
good question :), i want this answer too, the way i bought my PC, was by buying the onw with the biggest numbers for the lowest price :rofl:
I like to think of a room with 1 million people in it and either 32/64/128 doors, which one will get em out quicker?
Well i kinda like this idea but in real life its a little slower.
A cpu can process 64 bits of data in one go, in parallel (instead of 32) and can work out maths
of figures that are 64 bits long. Memory addressing is another thing, as the 64 bit pc can address much larger numbers,
it can manage much more memory (32 = a byte-addressable 32-bit computer can address 4,294,967,296 - about 4gb before overheads)
while 64 bit can address 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 or 16 exabytes [exbibytes] (= 17,179,869,184 GIGAbytes !! )
Thats 17 billion gigabytes in American money or over 17 thousand million Gig correctly. (I got 4gb atm lmao)
By using 32 bits your processor can represent numbers from 0 to 4,294,967,295
a 64-bit machine can represent numbers from 0 to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 ( a lil bigger )
While i've had to use a calculator (a 64 bit calculator) and quote a few words, i can only offer limited knowledge here lolz
Oh and 128bit =
128-bit processors could become prevalent when 16 exabytes [exbibytes] of addressable memory is no longer enough (128-bit processors would allow memory addressing for 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,45 6 bytes (~340.3 undecillion bytes or 281,474,976,710,656 yobibytes )
Quoted from wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/128_bit
I will add that 281 474 976 710 656 yobibytes = 3.1691265 × 10 to the power of 29 gigabytes
In any case, i think 128bit is way way away, given how long and hard the stroll was from 32 bit to 64bit :bsod:
i got 8bit nes, no need for 128bit cpus