New Computer

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by PeriscopeDepth

There is an increase in memory footprint, but like said before definitely not double. If you have 4 or more gigs of RAM it's worth it IMO, but more is better of course. A processor that works in quad words is rapidly becoming standard, if you have the memory it's silly limiting yourself to 4 bytes a register and a maximum of 2-3 GB of data in memory. Reading data from a hard drive into memory is super expensive performance wise.

PD

What I wanted to say is that if you have 4 GB of ram a 32 bit os will be just as well as a 64 bit one. To gain a definite advantage with a 64 bit os you really have to go beyond 4 GB ram even if you use 32 bit programs. Otherwise its just not worth the cost.
As far as disk drives, if you have an ssd wether you're using a 32 bit os or 64 bit os you'll see the computer fly.
Buying a top of the line ssd (slc mostly) but also mlc ssd's will give you an enormous advantage that no upgrading video card, processor or memory could ever give you.