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32-bit vs. 64-bit computing

32-bit vs. 64-bit computing

From the course: CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) Cert Prep

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32-bit vs. 64-bit computing

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- Now, as you progress in your career in IT, you're going to notice that we love standards. We standardize everything. And there's possibly no more prolific standard in hardware and software than x86 and x64. Now, what we're talking about here when we mention x86 and x64 is essentially the amount of data that the CPU can handle at any one time, whether it be x86 and 32-bit or x64 and 64-bit. Let's take a look at that using our animation from before so that we can further understand this. So let's go ahead and bring our friend back in, the box. And we'll go ahead and let our friend, the box, talk to his RAM stick. So we have our CPU back here, and we have our RAM here. And if you remember before, we had with our single-core processor just a very thin lane of information that was able to go back and forth between our two components. We would technically refer to this very thin lane as a 32-bit lane, right? This actual system can only handle 32-bit chunks of information at any one time…

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