32bit vs 64bit machines
Ok...another dumb question before I either upgrade current computer or go new. Decided this should be separate from my other post. Currently have a 2008 HP Pavillion Desktop running Vista Home P...
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pconroy328 wrote:
... If you're feeling a bit nerdy, the number 64, 32, 16, 8 (we skipped 24 in the Intel world) has to do with the number of bits that the chip can store and process internally. ...
Actually, if you really want to get nerdy, 24 wasn't skipped, that denomination just isn't part of the progression. Just as in the Base 10 numbering system, you have 1s, 10s, 100s, 1000s, etc... In the binary world the progression is 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s, 32s, 64s, etc... In Base 10 each position is 10X of the previous position. In Binary each position is 2X the previous position.
32-bit or 64-bit or whatever is the number of bits in what is referred to as a "word" to the cpu.
