32bit or 64bit?

I've upgraded my system with 4GB of RAM, new CPU, mobo, pretty much everything. I can't decide whether I should stay with Vista 32bit or go out and spend another $100 on Windows 7 64bit.

Will I be able to use all 4GB on a 32bit OS? My graphics card also has 1GB too if that changes anything.

Thanks!

So 64bit all the way then?

I've upgraded my system with 4GB of RAM, new CPU, mobo, pretty much everything. I can't decide whether I should stay with Vista 32bit or go out and spend another $100 on Windows 7 64bit.

Will I be able to use all 4GB on a 32bit OS? My graphics card also has 1GB too if that changes anything.

Thanks!

pogswarts

You won't be able to use it all for programs, since Windows reserves some RAM for hardware addressing and the OS.

If you're right at 4 GB, you're better off going with 64-bit, that way, you can go beyond that.

def 64 bit. you will get full use out of your 4 gigs of ram, and depending on what version of windows 7 you get, you can add more ram as you please.

Built my first system last week, Only used my laptop before this aat vista 32 bit and now I have win 7 pro with 4 gigs of RAM and its extremely fast, way more functional than 32 bit vista

Ok thanks, that's just what I wanted to know :)