Since it has been awhile since I posted I figured I would post twice today!

In my last post, LAMP vs WAMP I mentioned installing a new 64bit Linux Operating System. Well, if you know me at all, you know I had to try testing the system in a real-life environment.
In other words, “Is a 64bit OS really faster than a 32bit System?”

# Hardware:
# Intel Extreme Edition dual-core multi-threading Pent4 3.2Ghz CPU
# Intel D955XBK Mother Board with 6GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM
# Of course on the 32bit System only 4GB is seen!
# Multiple un-raided SATA HD’s
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# Operating Systems:
# Linux Debian 5.0.3 (lenny-stable) amd64
# Or…
# WIndows XP Pro 32bit (sp3)
# Mr. Gates, You want me to test XP64 send me a free copy

To be fair,I figured I better use the same program to test the speed. But the only “multimedia” type program I had on both systems was Audacity: free for all the three major OS’s here!

The Test…