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I just found out that the hardware that came uses 64bit AMD. But the

Windows Server 2003 license is for Standard Edition; a 32bit version.

 

What kind of performance hit would I take if I ran the Standard Edition

on the 64bit hardware?

 

Thanks,

Mark.

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Re: running 32bit standard edition on 64bit hardware?

 

As long as you don't need >4GB of RAM, you're fine. These days it's

virtually impossible to buy a server class machine that isn't 64bit

hardware. But the beauty of the AMD64 architecture is that it's also a very

good 32-bit processor. ;)

 

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"Mark" <murkynow50@yahoo.com> wrote in message

news:%23fp%23m$H$HHA.5464@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>I just found out that the hardware that came uses 64bit AMD. But the

>Windows Server 2003 license is for Standard Edition; a 32bit version.

>

> What kind of performance hit would I take if I ran the Standard Edition on

> the 64bit hardware?

>

> Thanks,

> Mark.

Posted

RE: running 32bit standard edition on 64bit hardware?

 

another good trick is to put your page file on a different drive, or across a

stripe @ 4096, i do that on all my systems (will still put a small 512mb on

the c, but a min of 4096 on the d, or stripe, seems to me i read somewhere

that a page file runs better on fat32, i could be wrong, it was a while ago

but your performance should be fine

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rf

 

 

"Mark" wrote:

> I just found out that the hardware that came uses 64bit AMD. But the

> Windows Server 2003 license is for Standard Edition; a 32bit version.

>

> What kind of performance hit would I take if I ran the Standard Edition

> on the 64bit hardware?

>

> Thanks,

> Mark.

>


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