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64 bit of course. 

I have Vista 'Basic' on the kids Box. The specs are about the same as my 7 year old XP box, And even though the Lenovo Vista Box is 1 year old. My XP Box can run circles around the Vista Box.

Maybe Vista 64 'Ultimate fighter' is faster, but there are some reviews calling Vista the Windows 'ME'(now whether the review is basic or upgraded versions, dependant). 
Remember the Screen Savers from the Tech TV network? Before that damn game channel killed all the goodness and I locked it out of my satellite receiver box..... Well they kept up with Windows Operating systems and installed 'ME' and then uninstalled it due to crashyness, reverting back to Windows 98 SE. Was a nice show to keep up on the latest specs. Was fun to watch the over-clocking show. 3.8GHz with nitrogen cooling and still boots. Just before Hyper-threading if I remember correctly..

But the Internet joke is that 'Windows 7' is 'Vista SP4'. I'll have to keep looking at the un-biased reviews through the months.. I have not delved in to the specs on Vista Ultimate and 64Bit. Just don't want to have the next operating system come out and Microsofty kill support for Vista early..... XP will never die ...... But the Vista Basic keeps getting more stable as updates get applied. A little over one year ago was a blue screen a day or two. Now that is about once a week.... My XP box has not blue screened in ages. Maybe a dozen time over 7 years abouts..


But I see that enough protection programs are 64 bit 'complaint'. Which is good..

Maybe I am just a "Vista" fan. I don't know.  I couldn't really work my way around it when I first started operating the system when it first came out. Never did any upgrades to my last two computers. Just this one, but then again this computer is a performance computer as well, as well as a 64 bit system. 

I've tried using apple computers themselves and the user interface was difficult for me to operate through. Just didn't understand how to use it really.

Course you could always do like my friend did with his computer. that he ended up giving me. I just have to get a new power supply for it.
He put it in a huge tower that is about three foot high and almost a full foot across and about two and a half feet in length. Check this out....
 He did some kind of personal mods on the mother board and on top of that he did a lot of other things that just looked unreal. don't really know all the specifics to it,
but i do know that it works, if it had a power supply, and i know it has some kind of kick butt cooling systems that at times will, and I swear, have ice in a couple of spots next to the fans.  the condensation is what made the power supply burn out I think.
   Anyway, he took all this stuff that he built up and ended up putting three different operating systems that actually worked on one computer.

I don't know how it works or what he did, or how he did it. All I know is it works, and it makes a lot of noise, and it lights up the room whenever its running.

i would give you his email and all but i would have to ask him if i could give it to somebody who was interested in the "artillery shell".  I have to wait till he calls me again or whenever he emails me back. He's in Iraq right now, and with his job, he doesn't really have much free time over there. but I will ask him if you would like

The pizza box was a cute one. 

What are you doing that your going to need more than 4 gigs of ram? The only thing your going to benifit the most in 64bit, is your going to be able to run more memory. Theres not a lot of  64bit apps yet.

If you plan on going with an Intel i7 core, you'll need 3 gigs, as it uses triple channel memory....

I was just reading about that last week. Interesting the way things are going to increase Ram.