June 7, 200421 yr Hey guys if any of you have the AMD 64 you can download a free copy of WinXP 64. This will only work if you have a 64 bit CPU. http://www.amd.com/us-en/0,,3715_10707,00.html I am downloading my copy and will try it out later today most likely.
June 7, 200421 yr address the most demanding needs of technical workstation users who require large amounts of memory and floating point performance in areas such as mechanical design and analysis, digital content creation and scientific and high-performance computing applications. For that Linux/Unix is just fine. And it isnt on trial.
June 7, 200421 yr I think the 64Bit version of XP runs only with AMD64 CPUs at the moment and not with intel 64bit cpu's (server cpu's). But Intel has officially announced, that they will bring a 64 Bit CPU like AMD, because they have the license from AMD. Microsoft has said, that they will only make one 64Bit Version of XP (thats good). There are some probs with the 64 Bit drivers, i heard ? Arent the boards at the moment a little bit rare and cost a lot of money ? Also you need registered ram (hard to get)...
June 7, 200421 yr I have windows xp 64-bit on a separate partition. I had to find a few 64-bit drivers such as raid driver, NIC driver, and soundcard driver. These drivers were hard to find. Also I found a 64-bit Catalyst driver for ATI cards.Hardware I'm using: Asus K8V Deluxe. This board has a 3COM Gigabit Lan. Soundblaster Audigy 2zs, Ati Radeon 9800 Pro. Promise Fastrak 378 Raid Controller.Lan driver seemed to work fineRaid controller worked finesound driver - many problems, sometimes sound don't work (won't work in Media Player for one, Windows sounds work). I tried to use to mic in ventrilo and I get errors.The video card drivers work but I see lower performance in gaming. Normally in Win xp 32-bit I get 5800 score in 3DMark03. In the Win XP - 64-bit with 64-bit catalysts drivers I get a score of 4800.Keep in mind that EVERYTHING is beta. This OS, and all the drivers. I'm sure it will get better. But don't expect to see too many improvements. You will get mostly lower performance. It is just something to play around with right now. I wouldn't install it to replace your 32-bit OS, it isn't worth it. If you want to use it I would install on a different partition and have a dual-boot setup.If anyone needs help with it, I've had some experience with the OS and the drivers. It tooks me a couple months of searching for drivers. Don't bother will manufactures tech support or trying finding the drivers on their website.
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