how do i find out if my cpu is 64bit or not

well 64-bit WELL i have had it a day and i cant get he drivers for my printer ethernet card and i cant use itunes

 

LOL, now what did I say would happen?

 

i no i no But 1 thing i did notcie is that i have ruffly 750mb of free ram with 32-bit i have around 550/600mb

 

i got the one year version of 64 bit windows here and it sounds about the same as it was then nothing works
vista is no better it doesn't work properly yet either

 

That's odd, it should be less, in fact it should theoretically be half...

 

well 64 bit is coming srate off now i hate it what a pointless OS what the point of having it if u cant use your hardware let alone your software

 

<applause>

 

lol i wished i knew how to use linux i a hate mirosoft

 

sammorris I see in other threads that u seem to know a lot about g-cards would u now the best way to set up my card the rest of my computer is a followed

512MB ADATA DDR2 667 DIMM-PC5300 X2 RAM
Intel® Pentium® D 2.8GHz 2M/800 Socket 775 CPU
RADEON X800TG 256DD3 PCI-EX G-CARD
GIGABYTEGA-8I945P-G-RH MOBO

 

The best way to set up your card? How do you mean?

 

just like in the Catalyst Center what would be the est setting

 

Well that all depends what you're looking for. Catalyst offers a variety of settings for games, video etc. A lot of them are image enhancing settings, which you need to balance between image quality and performance. If you'd like a guide on those features, feel free to drop me a Personal Message. This thread isn't really one about graphics.

 

So why not give Linux a try? There are lots of Distros with "Live" versions that you can try without installing anything on your system. Find one you like and learn it. It isn't as hard as most think.

 

Well, in my experience it was even more difficult than I expected, but don't let that put you off. I guess I just didn't look enough things up. Don't expect to use much of your hardware with linux though, some manufacturers provide linux drivers, but even the ones that do, they aren't as easy to install as you might think!

 

@sammorris
You and I have discussed this before about Linux. The version you tried was an older one and one that doesn't always keep up with the latest drivers.

Linux has come along way in the past couple of years and makes daily progress. Unlike Windows, things are patched every day and excellent tech support is available without fees.

You really need to reexamine things before you continue to put them down.

 

When was SuSe10 released? I'm not certain whether it was 9 or 10 I used.

 

Open SuSE was released in September/October 2005.

 

I installed my version of Suse in around November 2005.

 

Have you tried any other distributions other than SuSE?

 

I haven't, but using SuSe was onyly a brief experiment to get me out of a temporary hole anyway, I may try using it again a bit later, but for now I'm too tied up with other things to sort out.