running 32bit standard edition on 64bit hardware?

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I just found out that the hardware that came uses 64bit AMD. But the
Windows Server 2003 license is for Standard Edition; a 32bit version.

What kind of performance hit would I take if I ran the Standard Edition
on the 64bit hardware?

Thanks,
Mark.
 
Re: running 32bit standard edition on 64bit hardware?

As long as you don't need >4GB of RAM, you're fine. These days it's
virtually impossible to buy a server class machine that isn't 64bit
hardware. But the beauty of the AMD64 architecture is that it's also a very
good 32-bit processor. ;)

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"Mark" <murkynow50@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I just found out that the hardware that came uses 64bit AMD. But the
>Windows Server 2003 license is for Standard Edition; a 32bit version.
>
> What kind of performance hit would I take if I ran the Standard Edition on
> the 64bit hardware?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.
 
RE: running 32bit standard edition on 64bit hardware?

another good trick is to put your page file on a different drive, or across a
stripe @ 4096, i do that on all my systems (will still put a small 512mb on
the c, but a min of 4096 on the d, or stripe, seems to me i read somewhere
that a page file runs better on fat32, i could be wrong, it was a while ago
but your performance should be fine
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"Mark" wrote:

> I just found out that the hardware that came uses 64bit AMD. But the
> Windows Server 2003 license is for Standard Edition; a 32bit version.
>
> What kind of performance hit would I take if I ran the Standard Edition
> on the 64bit hardware?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.
>
 
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