camaro_dude15 Posted April 20, 2011 Posted April 20, 2011 i recently bought an am2+/am3 board and a 1055t, and i couldnt wait to finish buying all the parts for it, i wanted to fold with it, so i took an old e machine, stuffed my board in there and it booted to windows vista! everything went fine, i installed the drivers, and it works, but i then find out, it is a 32 bit os, so i want to know is there a difference, do i really need to buy a 64 bit os? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted April 20, 2011 Posted April 20, 2011 Do you need to buy one? Nope. Just use the same key and install the 64 bit version with it. They are interchangeable. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camaro_dude15 Posted April 20, 2011 Posted April 20, 2011 Do you need to buy one? Nope. Just use the same key and install the 64 bit version with it. They are interchangeable. i have no vista disk, but i do have the key from on the case, does this mean i can use the keys on all my old oem cases? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjjrmy Posted April 20, 2011 Posted April 20, 2011 i have no vista disk, but i do have the key from on the case, does this mean i can use the keys on all my old oem cases? It might work. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted April 20, 2011 Posted April 20, 2011 i have no vista disk, but i do have the key from on the case, does this mean i can use the keys on all my old oem cases? According to the EULA, no. Legally it's a grey area. It'd work as long as you have an OEM install disk. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camaro_dude15 Posted April 20, 2011 Posted April 20, 2011 is there a way to find a download and make a windows dvd? if there is where would i find said download? would a usb drive work? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted April 20, 2011 Posted April 20, 2011 (edited) is there a way to find a download and make a windows dvd? if there is where would i find said download? would a usb drive work? You can "burn" the image to any USB drive 4 GB or larger. As for obtaining the image...there are several ways to get it...not many of them entirely legal. Personally I have no qualms about downloading a pirated copy when I have a legitimate key. Edited April 20, 2011 by Waco Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F13Bubba Posted April 20, 2011 Posted April 20, 2011 You can "burn" the image to any USB drive 4 GB or larger. As for obtaining the image...there are several ways to get it...not many of them entirely legal. Personally I have no qualms about downloading a pirated copy when I have a legitimate key. This. that's how I ended up getting my copy of Win7 64 bit Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedway Posted April 20, 2011 Posted April 20, 2011 Yea it is easy to find any copy of Windows But, camaro you also asked what the difference is with 32bit and 64bit, and it basically comes down to how much RAM you want to use! If 4GB or less then a 32bit OS will be fine, but if you are wanting to use more than 4GB, then you need a 64bit OS. Back in the day another hang-up with 64bit OS's was driver support, but that isn't really the case anymore Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camaro_dude15 Posted April 20, 2011 Posted April 20, 2011 i conveniently only have 4gbs of ram! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedway Posted April 20, 2011 Posted April 20, 2011 Then unless you plan on changing that, you are prob good with the 32bit Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camaro_dude15 Posted April 20, 2011 Posted April 20, 2011 i want a fresh install anyway, it still thinks it an e machine lol, i found a place to download the image, which wasnt easy becuase even when i googled vista i was mostly finding 7, and when i did find it the site highly recomended a download mangager because its so big, so i grabbed one from cnet, and i dont know how i lived without one! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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