Dual processor - winxp or win200pro

[patrickmacdonald]

I have a dual processor machine running on win2000pro.
I use the machine with 3dstudio Viz and photohsop mostly, and quite heavily... ie with two copies of viz running as well as photoshop simultaneously...
I was wondering if winxp would perform better under this multitasking workload? As it is, win200pro seems pretty damn sluggish sometimes... (especially basic interface things like explorer)

any suggestions ( except that I should not work with so many apps open!) appreciated!

cheers
pm

 

[Superwormy]

How fast are the CPUs and how much RAM do you have? More than likely RAM is your bottleneck, as 3D Studio VIZ AND PhotoChop are RAM hogs.

I would say 2K cuase XP's ugly interface is a major turn-off on a workstation machine... and if you don't need USB and dont' play games, I'd say NT cause 2Ks ugly spruced up interface is a major-turn-off on a workstation...

 

[Nothinman]

I doubt XP would make any difference.

 

[spyordie007]

the kernels in XP and 2K are so similar that changing from one to the other shouldnt make a noticable differance. If you have good (and recent) hardware and have already done performance troubleshooting (drivers, services, optimization, etc.) than it's possible it could be a problem with your install.

-Spy

 

[Nothinman]

the kernels in XP and 2K are so similar that changing from one to the other shouldnt make a noticable differance. If you have good (and recent) hardware and have already done performance troubleshooting (drivers, services, optimization, etc.) than it's possible it could be a problem with your install.

The VMs in them seem quite different, or atleast they're tuned differently. XP would thrash the disk on large file copies and 2K doesn't, this makes a huge difference on my laptop where the drive is slow as sh!t.