i get $ for being a nerd though… so :booty:
Dont Use XP64
I had it on my Machine for a few days to see if it worked better with my AMD 64
It really made no difference in speed and tehre are Like NO drivers out there and not alot of stuff will run on it yet…I say hold off on that one…I got that Windows Vista at work since we have a MSDN subscription…I was wondering if everything worked on it since it was Beta 1 like drivers and apps.
Did you try any of that Sonny or do you just have it on a blank machine just using it without installing anything else but Vista
I was gonna use it whern i got my AMD 64 3400 but i chose to just stick with xp pro until they came out with a FINAL version
prick, you got an eval copy of vista with msdn without the driver packages… I can download the one you have, because i got it with my technet subscription a while back as well, or the revisted debugged one… but i was at a microshaft conference and bugged one guy that works for them for 2 days to get the full install wtih both development and network packaging… wdk platform to create and edit my own device driver delevopment… as well as all the add ons, napipspec naprras, msshv and wsus…
i am using it as a tester for hte server core mainly… not really using it on the client side of things… i only set it up on one client machien to play around and one vm machine…
but in short… what you have might cause some issues… but you can use the wdk package to create drivers if you’d need.
also, the driver compatibility issues with the 64bit xp are’nt really that big of a deal in my experience… you can use legacy drivers… just sometimes have to edit them or patch the registry.
i’m not really surprised that you didn’t see a performance increase RE: 64-bit processing… what exactly are you doing at home that is requiring you to thread your processing? haha… i mean shit, unless you were trying to develop a front end website with a backend sql, cracking checksums while editing a movie and burning a dvd, on aim and listening to winamp… i guess you can thread out that extra 20% processor overlay… :kekegay:
I dont really do anything with my computer at home anymore but putz on the internet…With the XP64 my microsoft intelli mouse 2.0 did not have drivers, my logitech webcam didnt have drivers. Alot of other programs wouldnt run. plus it just didnt seem to benifit me at all running it. I just went back to XP pro…I am just gonna wait for Vista to be retail because Windows crashes enough when its released let alone beta versions…LOL
you forgot posting on pittspeed :doh:
that’s weird man… like i was saying (sarcastically or not) the advantaged to threading processing 64-bit is really only worthwhile on machines that depend on high processor availibility… so basically you can allocate the processing that will be requred for whatever app you’re running… but shit, on my most intensive database server i don’t even see the processing need for 64-bit…the IO is much more of a bottle neck… what drive(s) do you run?
also, that intelli mouse was probably 1.1 usb port issue? i’ve seen that before… you can use legacy logitech drivers, not sure about webcams though, don’t use them.
about crashing… my xp pro hasn’t crashed in a while, nor my vista… however my linux box hung on a reboot this morning… so take that as you may… at least none of us are ghey mac users :madfawk:
well my PC at home was a gaming computer…64bit 6800GT and all that good stuff.
No my mouse is a intelli mouse 2.0 its the wireless optical with the tilt wheel on it and stuff. All the issues of things not working on the XP64 wasnt worth me keeping it since it didnt like some games either.
i want vista :sadwavey: