if u are not planning to increase the memory then i think 32-bit should be fine. again all depends on your usage, if it is just for casuals use like surfing, office work and presentations then i think 32 bit is good enough. as such as of now there are no major benefits for going 64 bit.
I have 2 computers 1 has winxp and another has win 7. I cable broadband internet connection installed in winxp computer then i put another network card in the winxp computer and connected the same to the win 7 computer.
after which i was able to sucessfully network the 2 computers and exchange...
well i would suggest that pour in your money to buy a good powerfull CPU preferrabelly Intel c2Q. and instead of spending on a graphic card. because frankly speaking graphic card will not help u in rendering the image it will be used only for display and redrawing, hence go for a moderate card...
I have a similar situation on my Gigabyte board with intel chipset. The only difference was that ur system beeps and mine behaved erratic.
I would suggest is either put a HSF on the chipset or apply some thermal compound on the chipset then replace the heatsink.
This thing worked in my case.
hello !! please excuse me !! i am not saying that AMD has an over heating problem persistant. What i meant was all 4 of my CPU's used to cross 75 - 80 degrees and then eventually the system would shut down and i had to wait for the CPU to cool and restart. Gradually this thing increased day by...
now a days most of the hardware stuff has 64 bit support. well in 2-3 years time all might have been shifted on 64bit.
i guess that the next major version of windows will be only 64 bit.
I am currently carrying out trials of windows 7 x64 RC on my amd system and it seems to work fine till now, not had any major problem with any app until now.
Anirudh, i do not mean that amd's are hot, the recent ones that i am using are a lot better and cooler, even the my cpu's that came after the RMA worked fine and cool.
but what i mean that there are some pieces that are defective and they seem to have an problem of over heating and in my case...