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Poll
Question: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware as your main machine?
Option 1: x86 votes: 0
Option 2: x64 votes: 20
Title: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware? [2017 POLL]
Post by: kotu on April 13, 2017, 06:10:12 PM
This poll will run for 90 days.
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware? [2017 POLL]
Post by: Snektron on April 13, 2017, 06:42:37 PM
if you still run 32-bit you must have not upgraded since 2007
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware?
Post by: novenary on April 13, 2017, 06:44:26 PM
Yeah, pretty much. I still have a Pentium 4 rig, but I never use it.
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware? [2017 POLL]
Post by: kotu on April 13, 2017, 06:46:28 PM
Quote from: Snektron on April 13, 2017, 06:42:37 PM
if you still run 32-bit you must have not upgraded since 2007

XD

november 2012 actually :p
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware?
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on April 13, 2017, 06:47:11 PM
Z80, ez80, 68K, SHA-3, SHA-4, ARM9, x64.

Had a x86 PC in 2010-11 but I no longer have it.
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware?
Post by: novenary on April 13, 2017, 06:58:13 PM
Well, if you're gonna count that... various ARM devices from v5 to v8 (Nspire, phones, tablet, Raspberry Pis, various MCUs, GBA), PowerPC 750 (GameCube), MIPS32 (router, stereo), z80 (TI calcs), Saturn (HP 40g), and probably others I forgot. :P
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware?
Post by: Yuki on April 13, 2017, 07:17:06 PM
I have a bunch of x86_64, x86 and ARM devices around, am I the only one to still have some x86 laptops?
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware? [2017 POLL]
Post by: gameblabla on April 13, 2017, 11:34:50 PM
I have an Intel Atom 32-bits PC but i gutted all of its parts.
I also have some intel atom motherboards but they lack a vent so i can't use them...

Even my old portable pc is x64, it has an old Pentium Dual Core.
With LLVMpipe, it can even play some OpenGL 3 games ! :D
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware? [2017 POLL]
Post by: semiprocoder on April 14, 2017, 05:48:31 AM
I think all the main computers I ever used were x64. I mean, I only really started using computers 10 years ago when I was five, but that was in school with the weird penguin iceburg game that I thoroughly enjoyed playing. For computers I actually used, I originally used a first gen mobile i3(I don't remember the exact model). Then I got a desktop with a 8320, then a laptop with a 5500u, and now a laptop with a 6700hq. So yup, all x64(although I really hate intel's lack of progress in the mobile cpu industry[and well, their cpus as a whole. A 2500k is almost as good as a modern 7600k, with both overclocking to just under 5 ghz ish]. I really hope that the mobile ryzen launch in Q4 will shake things up[there were some nice testers of the 1700 who undervolted it at, I think, more than(or at least) 3 ghz and ran it at 50 watts. Just a little underclocking or the removal of two cores would solidly push it into laptop cpu territory]).
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware?
Post by: Vogtinator on April 14, 2017, 02:32:23 PM
x64 is IA-64, I highly doubt that anyone of you has an Itanium system anywhere :P
The term got popular when Microsoft used it incorrectly for AMD64 and Intel-64 compatible editons of Windows, but it's still wrong.
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware?
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on April 18, 2017, 05:33:03 PM
Quote from: Vogtinator on April 14, 2017, 02:32:23 PM
x64 is IA-64, I highly doubt that anyone of you has an Itanium system anywhere :P
The term got popular when Microsoft used it incorrectly for AMD64 and Intel-64 compatible editons of Windows, but it's still wrong.
This reminds me when everyone started calling any music that had a UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ beat as techno or when everyone started calling punk rock, hard rock, death metal and black metal as hardcore. <_<
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware? [2017 POLL]
Post by: p2 on April 19, 2017, 08:12:52 AM
*edits poll to vote for his 32bit windows7 PC w/ 3GB RAM  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware?
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on April 19, 2017, 06:50:41 PM
There's already a 32 bits option @p2 (x86) :P
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware? [2017 POLL]
Post by: p2 on April 19, 2017, 08:00:53 PM
uh yeah, right. sorry
forgot about it
[spoiler]
Quotex86 started out as a 16-bit instruction set for 16-bit processors (the 8086 and 8088 processors), then was extended to a 32-bit instruction set for 32-bit processors (80386 and 80486), and now has been extended to a 64-bit instruction set for 64-bit processors. It used to be written as 80x86 to reflect the changing value in the middle of the chip model numbers, but somewhere along the line the 80 in the front was dropped, leaving just x86.
[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware?
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on April 19, 2017, 08:35:55 PM
Interesting. I always wondered why it was called x86 instead of x32
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware? [2017 POLL]
Post by: kotu on June 28, 2017, 06:29:55 AM
Ok I have changed my vote as the processor which I previously thought was 32-bit, is apparently classed, now, by Windows 10, as 64-bit

A brief look round the web reveals I should indeed be able to install Windows 10 x64..../.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install/can-my-system-support-64-bit-os/35d0684b-cdd6-40a1-b8eb-26386bcfc902 (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install/can-my-system-support-64-bit-os/35d0684b-cdd6-40a1-b8eb-26386bcfc902)

Also that my motherborard supports 64Gb of RAM.

I am sorely tempted to install x64 Windows 10 and increase my RAM from 4 Gb to 8 Gb. Can't see myself ever needing more than 8 Gb.

Any thoughts / advice??

Cheers!
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware?
Post by: _iPhoenix_ on June 28, 2017, 12:56:59 PM
I never use more than half of my 64 gigs of ram, even while doing like 8 things at once.
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware?
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on June 28, 2017, 04:30:58 PM
64 GB seems kinda overkill. Many people are still fine with 8 GB (I have 8 and use like 55%)
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware?
Post by: _iPhoenix_ on June 28, 2017, 04:41:35 PM
Yeah, but gets REALLY nice while doing intensive things.

I just checked, it was actually 32gigs, but that's still overkill.

(So that's why I can only use half of 64 gigs :P)
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware? [2017 POLL]
Post by: kotu on June 28, 2017, 11:45:22 PM
Well, when I am going insane creating things in C++Builder, it sometimes uses as much as 35 Mb of memory

lol

beat that you insane ram heads
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware? [2017 POLL]
Post by: xMarminq_ on June 29, 2017, 12:56:41 AM
108x  ;)

64x For real
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware? [2017 POLL]
Post by: kotu on June 29, 2017, 12:59:46 AM
that is lazy typing
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware? [2017 POLL]
Post by: xMarminq_ on June 29, 2017, 01:00:25 AM
'Tis this  ;D
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware? [2017 POLL]
Post by: kotu on June 29, 2017, 05:18:05 AM
wl mmmm omg
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware?
Post by: _iPhoenix_ on June 29, 2017, 06:05:54 AM
Quote from: kotu on June 28, 2017, 11:45:22 PM
Well, when I am going insane creating things in C++Builder, it sometimes uses as much as 35 Mb of memory

lol

beat that you insane ram heads

When I am streaming video, playing 2 video games, programming, posting, ti-connecting, and composing all in one session, RAM is useful.
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware? [2017 POLL]
Post by: kotu on June 29, 2017, 06:07:56 AM
i tend to do things in turn, tbh i dont even understand what you said
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware?
Post by: _iPhoenix_ on June 29, 2017, 06:10:08 AM
I tend to just leave things running.

So I'll be in the middle of say, a post, and feel really inspired and go program something, then decide that I want to take a break and play a game, but I'll forget to close the window.
Title: Re: Do you have x86 or x64 hardware? [2017 POLL]
Post by: kotu on June 29, 2017, 12:04:11 PM
me and rob are have just realised we have been working on 2 remixes of a tune at once, reason is using just over 200 megabytes.

PLEASE DON'T STAB ME


btw guys mateo uses 64 gig at once and a million dollar array of HDDs as his swap file

just from looking at games

NICE HACK
COOL PROGRAM MATEO


FAIR PLAY

COOL FRIEND