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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
So I have an Opteron 146 CPU on a nforce 3 chipset in my computer. Do I need to buy Windows XP 64bit edition to make use of the 64-bit CPU and 64 bit programs?
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Yes.
But driver support isn't great, so check that out before you decide to switch.
And what 64 bit programs do you want to run? Right now, outside of high end analysis tools, databases and the like, there aren't a whole lot of consumer programs that need or use 64bit.
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