64bit from 32bit ???

[Tomuks]

Hello, so my system runs on 32bit and I want to upgrade it to 64bit. Is it possible with my pc ?
specs: CPU- Genuine Intel(R) CPU 2140 @ 1.60GHz(overclocked to 2GHZ)
ram: 2.50gb 800mhz
32-bit os

 

[USAFRet]

Yes you can. You probably won't see any performance increase, though.

And it is a full reinstall. Everything on that drive will be wiped out.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

If you have 4gb of ram or under 64 bit won't help.

 

[getochkn]

why do want to change, and no, normally you have to reinstall your windows to the 64bit version. You don't have over 4gb of ram, so you don't need 64bit for that, so not sure why you think you need to switch.

 

[getochkn]

Damn, double moderator ninja'd.

 

[Tomuks]

Hmmm, there are games that my pc can handle but they are on 64bit. so its better me to upgrade it when i have 4gb ram ?

 

[InvalidError]

If you have 4gb of ram or under 64 bit won't help.

Having a 64bits OS even if you have less than 4GB of RAM does help if you run applications that make use of 64bits instructions: a crypto library doing 64bits math using 32bits emulation will be four times slower than the same library using native 64bits multiplication. Same goes for everything else that use large number integer math but not necessarily much memory.

 

[Tomuks]

btw if you could help me: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2851741/windows-startup-freeze.html if not this problem i could have 4gb ram

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

You want at least 8gb for 64bit most of the time.

4GB or under stick to 32 bit.

 

[dfk]

Check ARK intel if your cpu supports 64bit. I have a Core 2 duo laptop with 2.5G RAM and 64bit win 8.1 is usable but close to memory limit, you might be better with 4GB.

 

[jsmithepa]

Is this Intel 2140 even a 64 bit?

 

[Tomuks]

http://ark.intel.com/products/29738/Intel-Pentium-Processor-E2140-1M-Cache-1_60-GHz-800-MHz-FSB i think yes