just a thought

[Raudel Solis]

some might say running 32 bit apps on 64 bit cpus will have bugs, i from personal experience with 3ds max found that 3ds max runs more stable with my 64 bit core i7, with the parray system on 64 bit i could not use number of chunks without 3ds max force quitting, but on the 32 bit version everything ran more smoothly, even the animation playback which on the 64 bit ran with a bit of lag,

[ReMark]

Interesting observation. Benchmark the system running the 64-bit app then the 32-bit app and see how they compare. That will be worth looking at.

[Raudel Solis]

what should i use to benchmark it? ive heard of the benchmarking by cadalyst you mentioned in another post but it says for systems with autocad

[Raudel Solis]

with 32 bit 3ds max open

12/18/2010 2:16:55 PM

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

Intel Core i7 Q 720 1.60GHz @ 1600 MHz

Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

 

4030 MB System RAM (Score: 130)

- RAM Speed: 7351 MB/s

 

CPU Tests (Score: 452)

- Floating Point Operations/Second: 193989856

- Integer Operations/Second: 428507520

- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 536754

 

Graphics Tests (Score: 137)

- 3D Frames Per Second: 419

 

Hardware Tests (Score: 38)

- Primary Partition Capacity: 573 GB

- Drive Write Speed: 85 MB/s

 

 

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with 64 bit 3ds max open

12/18/2010 2:20:59 PM

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

Intel Core i7 Q 720 1.60GHz @ 1600 MHz

Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

 

4030 MB System RAM (Score: 129)

- RAM Speed: 7155 MB/s

 

CPU Tests (Score: 444)

- Floating Point Operations/Second: 187441312

- Integer Operations/Second: 417446496

- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 537842

 

Graphics Tests (Score: 137)

- 3D Frames Per Second: 418

 

Hardware Tests (Score: 37)

- Primary Partition Capacity: 573 GB

- Drive Write Speed: 79 MB/s

 

 

 

 

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is there any benchmarking tools that are more specific to programs

[ReMark]

I don't know. If I were you I'd do a search and find out. There has to be some way of gauging performance.