I’m setting up a new machine with 8cores and 8Gb of RAM.
I had to choose between Ubuntu 32bits or 64bits…
Ubuntu 64bits was the choice. Why?
If you have more than 4 GB of RAM go for 64 bit else 32 bit is just fine.
Use 64bit in case you do
- video editing and processing
- sound editing and processing
- graphic editing and processing
- work with large files (e.g. databases, large log files,…)
Got it from http://askubuntu.com/questions/19803/for-better-performance-should-i-install-32-bit-or-64-bit