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LAN Party Forums => Support Group => Started by: Billabond1 on October 12, 2006, 10:01:28 AM
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The time has come for my computer to need windows rebuilt. I am currently running xp pro. I have ran x64 in the past, but that was shortly after it's release. Is it now working as well as xp pro, or am I going to run into more issues? Thanks in advance.
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i ran it proly around the same time you did... it really didnt seem worth it, not that much faster...
i thought u have a mac!?
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i have a mac laptop for doing laptop sort of stuff. Actually, if all goes well, I should be running mac os on my desktop in the near future.
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If that happens all I will play is WoW. LOL
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I was running the latest build of x64 before I reformatted that one york lan awhile back. It worked fine for me. Only driver issue I had was that kensington never made an x64 version of MouseWorks. Other than that, it ran fine.
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MS Gave me 10 keys for x64 and I gave in. Drivers are a real PITA, and some programs do not function (Adobe does not print to PDF is the only thing that comes to mind).
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Windows XP Professional, designed from Windows Server 2003 technology, boasts its stability and file access latency reduction as it's big selling points. I run this and its x86 counterpart, and I haven't notice a significant performance increase beyond drive access speed. My low load times seem to be the only impact. I will say that I see far fewer crashes and problems with the x64 platform, and I tend to prefer it for running notoriously buggy games like Battlefield 2/2142. My only challenges were finding appropriate drivers (everything legacy was supported by the manufacturer), and a very small number of slightly older games wouldn't work (received a low graphics memory error). But once I found a solution to any problem, it stayed perfectly operational until I either blew out hardware or made some invasive change that corrupted it. I'd recommend the x64 platform for those with little better to do with their money (or those who have a technet subscription). While the drive access time is significantly reduced, beyond that it's mostly a status symbol, and finding a free antivirus solution can be difficult since only paid versions of AVG support the platform. You wouldn't want to leave this as your only operating system on your machine, per sey, but instead dual boot with both x64 and x86 versions.
I would like to add that I have more success with it than I've had with either version of Vista to this point.
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And for those willing to give it a shot, you'd best bookmark this link: http://www.planetamd64.com/
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Windows XP Professional, designed from Windows Server 2003 technology, boasts its stability and file access latency reduction as it's big selling points.
How the? WinXP 2002.... Server 2003... They are trixxy with their time travels!
On another note:
You brought back quite the dead thread, I mean it was almost to it's 1 year dead anniversary!
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Oh. I'm sorry.
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Shado is really anal about forum necromancy.
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....... ok...
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That rebuild has come and gone. To give closure to this thread...I stuck with normal old xp pro.
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MS Gave me 10 keys for x64 and I gave in. Drivers are a real PITA, and some programs do not function (Adobe does not print to PDF is the only thing that comes to mind).
Still ahve some of those keys and are you willing to gimme one? ;)
Oh uh, sorry about the dead topic revival, sometimes they just won't die.
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*stabs topic back to death*
Off with its head!
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.... *groan* ..... BRAINS ....