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mr roboto Woah there's a 64 bit Windows now? What's next 128 bit versions. As I'm still rocking my 8 bit NES.Reply -
oneof10 Thank you for the article. Though this article may seem outdated and therefore fairly irrelevant, I just happened upon a free copy of XP 64 and was exploring the value in dual booting my XP 32 system. Thanks for saving me a potential headache for very little benefit.Reply -
I found some newer games that would not work on Win7 (and fyi, Win7 XP mode is *not* for gamers, no 3D graphics) so I dual booted with WinXP x64. Thankfully I had a great system driver disk, though at this time availability of 64 bit drivers is not the issue it used to be.Reply
But ... lemme say WinXP x64 ROCKS ... I was getting some butter-smooth frame rates with every video setting max'd. Yeah, I know there's multicore CPU, a GPU, chipset, etc. in the picture ... but just a gut check tells me that data is *flying* in there, even if it is 32 bit code. The OS overhead must be much less or something. -
bakra downloads what i learned today is not to trust idiots at tomshardwareReply
windows xp 64 bit is godlike
it's performance is mind blowing
I would pay money to anybody who can get me a windows xp 64 working on newer hardware (like HP laptops)
newer hardware only supports windows 7 64
windows 7 64 is nothing when u compare it to windows xp 64
dunno why it is so "butter smooth" and fast. I speculate win xp 64 less drivers (eg. hibernation is not supported) thus less DPC processing and more butter smoothness