15 Jul 2006 at 00:11 #1 Mikesoft Mikesoft Associate Joined 12 Oct 2005 Posts 329 Location Cheam I have an athlon 64. Should I purchase the normal windows or the 64bit version? Is there much difference with performance?
I have an athlon 64. Should I purchase the normal windows or the 64bit version? Is there much difference with performance?
15 Jul 2006 at 00:17 #2 ajgoodfellow ajgoodfellow Soldato Joined 24 Dec 2004 Posts 11,370 Location Knowle, Solihull, UK If you can get all of the drivers you need then go for it I've been running XP Professional x64 edition for some time now and I've found it to be stable and quick A few older DOS games don't work (SiN for example), Alcohol doesn't work (use Daemon tools) and Virtual PC 2004 doesn't (use VMWare)
If you can get all of the drivers you need then go for it I've been running XP Professional x64 edition for some time now and I've found it to be stable and quick A few older DOS games don't work (SiN for example), Alcohol doesn't work (use Daemon tools) and Virtual PC 2004 doesn't (use VMWare)
15 Jul 2006 at 14:31 #3 Mikesoft Mikesoft Associate OP Joined 12 Oct 2005 Posts 329 Location Cheam ok Thanks. I usually use LInux so im sure I will cope with driver problems