If you are under 256MB run 32 bit.
From 512MB to 2GB it doesn't matter
4GB and above you need to be running 64 bit

On Jan 30, 2014 10:05 AM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

My dad got an NUC for XBMC. Will there be any noticeable difference between running the 32 or 64 bit versions?

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On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org> wrote:

Brian Cluff wrote:

Michael Havens wrote:

What is the minimum amount of memory needed to run 64bit stuff?

64bit systems have virtually identical memory requirements to 32bit systems.

64-bit executables are slightly larger and have a bigger memory footprint than 32-bit executables.  The differences will be tough to notice unless you've got less than 512M of RAM.  I had no problems running 64-bit distros years ago on a machine with 1G of RAM, but that was before KDE 4 and insane firefox bloat.  64-bit and 4G RAM works just fine.  You'll probably be OK with 2G and maybe even 1G.
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