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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: Vulgate on September 19, 2005, 06:17:24 PM
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I pulled together some money and ended up with this:
AMD Athlon64 4000+/-
VGA XFX GeForce 7800GT
BFG NForce 4 Ultra Mobo (No Need for SLI)
OCZ 1GB PC3200 2-2-2-5 timmings
Antec Sonata2 case
and windows XP X64
2 160GB HDD from older PC
now I need 64-bit apps, Help.
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not many 64bit apps out there, farcry comes to mind as the first.
I am running XP64 on my one desktop, it seems nice, but make sure you have drivers for everything.
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Hey Tekie
Does x64 actually make a diff in boot and load times. I would imagine it would. I'm still debating getting x64... are you experiencing any issues? Drivers? Stability? Just wanna know before the upgrade.
Bet this isn't the right spot for this post
F3ar0n
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I'll let you know soon. :)
anyone know where to get UTo4 64tbit?
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I can only tell you I my personal experience with x64 Windows. I got the new 4000+ and tried to install it (three times). For some reason, there was serious driver issues when loading up the Asus provided drivers (the x64 variant) with the new OS. I think I had narrowed it down to the IDE drivers that Asus/Nforce wanted to install, but by that time I said the heck with this and went with stock XP-SP1.
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i think tekie and i had the same problem with drivers... they seem to be misslabled on some download pages...
when i was using it, the only real problem i had was compatibility issues... Alc 120% and smaller apps of that nature dont always work... the 32bit emulator has sum issues too...
Its alright, but unless your really needing that .25 sec. faster boot its really not worth the hasel
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Alcohol doesn't work because they don't have a 64-bit driver for the virtual CD-ROM drive it creates. Same thing with the Cisco VPN client for the WAN Miniport it creates. Also any app with a 16-bit installer will not run and there a suprising amount of those out there still.
So it's not the app, just the "virtual" hardware it tries to create, but nevertheless, it's what's causing the failure.
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Thats what I figured. I'v been told by a lot of guys that there isn't enough driver support out yet so its a real hassle. I guess I'll actually worry about it when someone ACTUALLy decides to produce a 64 bit app and Microsoft actually decides to release some decent support drivers. I just wanted to check and see if I was missing anything. I imagine not from the great reponses. Thanks you guys.
David
F3ar0n
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yeah, I ended up doing a duel boot with XP32-b and 64-bit. I got some free games with my new PC, need 64-bit support. (bet on soldier)from AMD, and want to use farcry in 64-bit too)
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i am pretty sure far cry 64-bit will run under 32 bit windows. i am not sure about the other one.
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why is it taking companies so long to catch on to the 64bit thing with software? I know intel is trying to "monopolize" the industry by trying to sign deals with certain things but does anyone know what's the deal? Is the 64 bit that complicated or what?
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32bit>64bit, untill 64 chips become more "mainstream" thers not going to be a huge demand for drivers and such...
nothing to do with intel
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ok I see so what you are saying is 64 bit isn't in high enough demand for the companies to want to produce the drivers? i think i get it
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sumthing like that...