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Home Premium 64bit or XP 64bit

  • 29-06-2007 1:16pm
    #1
    dazftw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭


    Have a little saved and am going to add 2 more gigs of ram to the pc as its only €140 for 2 gigs of PC8500 thats a 100 less for what I paid for it originally :)

    So my question is.. Im on vista home premium now.. 32bit, Im going to need 64bit OS

    Should I go for vista or XP? I would rather XP but like ill have to upgrade to vista anyway for all the new games..

    Also I cant seem to find 64bit xp? Well its not on overclockers anyway...

    Is it windows XP professional?

    Thanks :)

    Daz

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  • #2
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,504 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    Maybe because 64 bit XP was pretty crap, at least in terms of there not being many 64 bits apps, especially games.


  • #3
    dazftw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭dazftw


    Yea if I bought 64bit home premium... Would it mean i may have problems with games or they just wont work?

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  • #4
    papu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭papu


    my friend games on 64bit vista, the only thing you'll have to look out for it DRIVERS arghhh


  • #5
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,504 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    Yeah, you will just be waiting for driver updates and fixes. I installed it there and was a little underwhelmed, also things like Intel TAT don't run on 64 bit.


  • #6
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    DeafVision ff you think Vista isn't well supported then going XP 64-bit is like out of the frying pan and into the fire.

    Not a good idea and don't waste your money on a 4Gb RAM system under XP just isn't worth it unless you have very specific applications that use the RAM.

    The nice thing about Vista is that it has an aggressive cache system so all that RAM under Vista 64-bit at least gets used to well effect but compatibility issues are still present with apps/drivers so unless you like living on the edge then stick with 32-bit.


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  • #7
    dazftw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭dazftw


    Yea but its €140 which is great value! The more the better I think :)

    Also I just check a few for drivers for main parts in my computer most of them have 64bit drivers

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  • #8
    dazftw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭dazftw


    Well, went and bought 64bit Vista along with:

    2Gigs of OCZ sli Ram
    Thermalright 120 ultra extreme
    A fan Controller
    and stuff to clean the cpu

    :)

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  • #9
    Slutmonkey57b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,574 ✭✭✭Slutmonkey57b


    Stuff to clean the cpu?

    Nail varnish remover man.


  • #10
    dazftw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭dazftw


    Slutmonkey57b wrote:
    Stuff to clean the cpu?

    Nail varnish remover man.

    That works? Thanks for the info ill know next time lol.. It was only like 5 pound so its ok :)

    Last time I just used a tissue didn't think it was very good lol :p

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  • #11
    PeakOutput
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,639 ✭✭✭PeakOutput


    arrrgh wish I saw this before you bought the os I have vista ultimate and microsoft office pro 2007 unopened for sale we could of come to an arrangement for vista.

    awww well lesson ill have to stay sharp:p


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  • #12
    dazftw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭dazftw


    PeakOutput wrote:
    arrrgh wish I saw this before you bought the os I have vista ultimate and microsoft office pro 2007 unopened for sale we could of come to an arrangement for vista.

    awww well lesson ill have to stay sharp:p

    lol you would have charged me about 500 euro and I only paid 126 for this :p

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