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Why does Windows 7 x64 work faster than an x86 edition on my PC?

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Mar 15, 202634093 views
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Why does Windows 7 x64 work faster than an x86 edition on my PC even though I mostly use x86 things in it? What's wrong with me, and what am I missing? Majority of the things I use is x86 (e.g. DAWs, games, media players). A considerable amount of them, however, are x64 (although their x86 counterp…

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The move from 32 to 64 bits is not the only change in the x64 architecture. x64 also adds more cpu registers and new cpu instructions. An operating system that knows how to take advantage of these can get a modest performance bump out of the same ha…

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