The Death of 32-bit Operating System Platform.

In the Tech World today, as we are moving forward to the future, older technologies will die, giving way to the newer techs that inherits the legacy of the older ones. Whether with a faster data rate transfer or having more cores in one processor, if Moore's Law demands it, the old will slowly fades as Technology continues to grow.

These days, I've been seeing a lot of changes in the world of computing, especially in the hardware and the software section. Seeing how things slowly dies, it is difficult not to think that the 32-bit of Operating System Architecture will die and giving way to the dominance of the 64-bit platform and also, the birth of 128-bit Operating System, thus, also, will be the days of the 128-bit Processors and also the birth of 256-bit Processors. When the time comes, the Moore's Law demands it, like I said before.

Today, more and more software developers and also enthusiasts are moving toward 64-bit computing. Gamers, like me, who are on the enthusiasts' side, are doing so to break the barrier of the 4GB limitation of RAM in a 32-bit Operating System, thus, allowing us to go for more RAMs to get some more juice in our games. With the release of Core i7 from Intel, the requirement for RAMs has been added with one more stick of RAM to the usual 2-stick package of RAM on sale in the market thus giving the minimum amount of RAM from 3GB going up to 6GB, then to 12GB and finally doubled to 24GB of RAM just as the Moore's Law demands it to. With that amount of RAM, it is hard not to go for 64-bit platform due to the limitation of RAM given by the 32-bit platform.

As of now, 32-bit will still live for the moment until about after 2 years or maybe even a little bit longer before it dies. Given the fact that Windows 7 are on the way and still giving hope on the 32-bit platform since there are much performance gain on the 32-bit side on the beta testing stage than on Vista. From that onwards, more and more things are beginning to change or die in terms of people changin motherboards, platforms, RAMs and many more. All this, is because the Moore's Law demands it and developers will continue to push new games and softwares which will requires better hardwares to run smoothly on them.

Starting from next year, it will be hard for me to go for 32-bit OS anymore since my new rig that are still on the construction stage are going for 64-bit OS. The reason I'm porting is because I wanna fully utilize those 4GB of my Corsair Dominator RAMs and also the extra 2GB of it which I have bought. Damn!!! But at least I got the extra juices.

Yeah... If you have any thoughts on this, please leave a comment below.

Till then,

Ciao.


-JJ,out-