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[DBall]

I'm thinking of getting a 64 bit vista machine and I wondered what experiences people had with 64-bit Vista running BOINC.

[Txakura]

it ran fine, but it didn't perform any better on Vista 64 than it did on XP 32.  XP 64 Pro, on the other hand - does very well - better than Vista

[DBall]

it ran fine, but it didn't perform any better on Vista 64 than it did on XP 32.  XP 64 Pro, on the other hand - does very well - better than Vista

Thanks! I just want the extra memory capacity and a test machine with Vista64 and quad cores. Circuit city has a HP quad that comes with Vista 64 and 5 GB RAM (expandable to 8 GB) for about $700.

[Txakura]

Snag it if you can, you'll be happy you did, I'm sure    Oh, for giggles, make sure you get the 64 bit client and not the regular Vista client

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php

[DBall]

arggh... Circuit City went up on the price. I'm going to keep watching it because it moves around and has been as low as $ 672, I think.

[bob_bowen5]

I've run it on 64 bit linux (fedora successfully, but not 64 bit Vista...