64 bit support and speed

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bnbrown1
Dec 9, 2003
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I am looking to upgrade my PC for PS use and am looking at the new 64 bit chip based PCs. Does Photoshop support this architecture or is this now a waste of money? I am using CS.
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Scott_Byer
Dec 9, 2003
Hard question to answer. There are some advantages (de o hardware archtechture changes), but until you are able to run a 64-bit OS and 64-bit applications (which won’t happen until enough 64-bit systems are on desktops), you won’t get the *full* advantage.

Even if you’re able to just step up to a 64-bit OS, there are some reasonably big wins there, as the 64-bit systems can typcially move memory and do I/O faster.

I assume we’re talking about an AMD64 system? Otherwise the answers are much different.

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