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Either one will work on your hardware, and there's no clear advantage to one over the other since you only have 4 GB RAM (even if you did, the advantages are not ground-breaking).
On a machine like that I would always go for 64 bit (x86_64). There is no reason to use 32 bit anymore, except you really have some exotic or old hardware without 64 bit drivers. 32 bit software will run just fine on a 64 bit system, if necessary, in the meantime you will use your CPU to its fullest extent. 64 bit distribution are in general better optimized for modern CPUs.
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