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Terry Vavra's avatar
Terry Vavra
Copper Contributor
Aug 14, 2017

Office 365 32 or 64 bit version for an i9 chip computer

I'm in the second week of a new computer with an i9 (10 core) chip.

All Office programs - especially Outlook - seem to run poorly - a very disappointing discovery.  I'm currently using the 32 bit, default version of Office and am wondering if I'm suboptimizing the power of my machine with the lower bit version.

Any suggestions/experiences out there to guide my decision?  Otherwise it'll be 'trial and error'...

Thanks

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  • Cian Allner's avatar
    Cian Allner
    Silver Contributor
    Aug 14, 2017

    The advice is generally to stick with the 32-bit version of Office unless you have specific workloads that can benefit from the 64-bit version as described here.  For day to day performance, I'd be surprised if you'd noticed much difference with the 64-bit version.

     

    If Outlook is performing poorly, I doubt it's anything to do with the architecture of Office and I'd look more at general performance troubleshooting steps. 

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