I am going to be building a new PC after the first of the year and was hoping to get opinions on whether or not I should upgrade to XP finally or stick with 98se. I plan on building the following systemAMD 2800+ Barton1gig RAM9800 pro video cardnforce 2 mobo (probabaly something from ABIT or ASUS)120 GB 7200 HDAudigy sound cardThoughts?

WinXP!I am running WinXP and couldnt even think about going to 98. With that much ram I wouldnt choose anything else. I am running WinXP Pro and I have 1024MB of Rambus and it runs great.

win xp is far better than crummy crashing win98

XP Promost stable version of windows I've ever used (and I've been using windows that I can remember was way back when, 2.0 or so I think)ran into too many issues with win2kpro, though it is my secondary favwin98 and NT4 essentially go bye bye soon, so find something recent

XP is the best system untill it starts 2 give you problem.But i guess Xp is the best...

XP Pro. No questions asked.

XP all the way....

xp home dont waste the extra cash

Xp Pro if u are more than one to use the computer and Xp home if u are the only one to use it.

What Pys and Kami said.Go Pro and never worry about multiple computers and upgrading parts.

ive noticed that 2k doesnt do very well with newer tech, especially AMD. Super redundant, but go with XP, i cant even remember what a BSOD looks like. they are nothing but horrible, horrible memories

I run ME and get very few BSOD. I get them when I overclock too far or put a CD in that my Rom has trouble initializing. That is about the extent of my BSOD's with ME.

If you use win XP, i give one tip, dont make an update of your old win 98 but make a new installation with a format of of your hd to delete all old datas (but not your "documents" that you want to got = make a backup of it) else it will crash soon for the same reasons : old drivers converted in new drivers = hazardious. :roll: Egidio.

my vote is with XP either version, i use XP Pro but i got mine for free so...