Dell Precision R5400 Workstation/FX100 Technical Guide
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Dell Precision Factory Installed OS Choices:
Windows XP Pro 32 & 64bit, SP3 Via Vista downgrade program
Windows Vista Ultimate-32 & 64bit, SP1
Windows Vista Business-32 & 64bit, SP1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux V5 64Bit (V4 supported)
Benefits of 64 bit OS:
64-bit native applications can deliver more data more quickly, so memory-intensive
applications can run more quickly and efficiently.
Data in memory can be accessed thousands of times faster than it is on a disk drive.
Applications can preload substantially more data into virtual memory, allowing rapid
access by the 64-bit processor.
Ability to address more than 4GB
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of physical system memory.
Freedom to maximize your resources by hosting your 32-bit applications and scalable,
high performing 64-bit applications on the same platform.
