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Well nowadays if you don't care about the difference between $45 and $65, why not get 16Gb instead of 8Gb?
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T800
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Sometimes when I see people with 8GB RAM in their HTPC I wonder if I should do the same. Then I use my i3 with 4GB and it's so bloody fast and does everything I want without missing a beat.
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I just break the larger ram sticks in half so I can use part of it in another computer.
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da-anda
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The only reason for 16 GB RAM for me would be a 12 GB ram drive for the timeshift buffer - but for this even 8GB would suffice.
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Guys this is a development thread about getting x64 support on windows and not a "how much RAM makes sense in a HTPC" discussion so if that's all you have to post please do it somewhere else as it's only very very remotely on topic.
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A good reason to move to 64 bit on Windows is... eventually Win32 *will* stop being well supported on the windows platform, possibly even going the way of Win16. While Win64 allows 32bit execution product, compiling against it needs 64 bit pointer support.
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Not too old a thread to respond to, so let me just add that given that the direction appears to be towards UPnP with on-the-fly transcoding, I think that's where a 64 bit version will most be beneficial in the shorter term....
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I would also like to see a 64bit version for a very simple reason - I run Server 2008 R2 and the downloaded 32bit version which will not install. And no I can not replace the OS!!
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a11599
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There is some other problem if you cannot install it. I just tried on Windows Server 2008 R2 and the installer went through fine. I can also start XBMC (although it errors out because the server is headless and XBMC won't run in an RDP session).
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Actually you can run XBMC in a RDP session. First it must be installed directly with a attached monitor/keyboard/mouse. Once installed you can run it from a RDP session, at least you can do the menus/setup/scans. I haven't tried to actually play content. I do this as a XBMC server. I set it up to auto logon, automatically start XBMC, and automatically scan. This is a Win 7 Pro x64 OS under a ESXi host.
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DEFINITLY NEED A 64 BIT VERSION FOR WINDOWS. IF YOU NEED A REASON ITS BECOUSE IT WILL WORK BETTER. FOR EXAMPLE WHEN I WAS USING 32 XBMC WAS WORKING BEAUTIFULY BUT WHEN I SWITCHED TO 64 IT DOESNT EVEN WANT TO DOWNLOAD FROM YOUR WEB PAGE.