To XP64bit or not to XP64bit....

[Sylvanas]

Well I have been trying to decide as to if its worthwhile to upgrade to XP64bit for quite a while. Its a free upgrade according to M$ is it worth it? I will be using it on my system in sig. I know that many drivers may be hard to come by but ATI, Nvidia (for chipset) and Creative all have downloadable X64 drivers, are they any good? Last I heard the Creative X64 drivers were still in BETA and I'm having enough troubles with Creative drivers anyway, so has anyone tried them?

 

[w00t]

are you going to use any 64bit apps? if ur not its worthless.

 

[Jeff7181]

I've been using the preview edition for a while now off and on. It works pretty well. I wanted to trade in my XP Pro license at the end of this month before the offer expires, but a family member still uses AOL and it won't work on XP x64. He refuses to get rid of it, and for various reasons I have to keep it so he can use the computer... so I can't get XP x64 unless AOL creates a version of AOL that works on XP x64 in the next couple weeks.

 

[biostud]

to few drivers ATM and too little software that takes advantage of 64 bit instructions.

 

[13Gigatons]

The Pros:

The operating itself is greatly improved being built on Windows Server 2003 code.
32 bit and 64 bit apps run great.

The Cons:

Lack of drivers and big names refuse to produce drivers for popular hardware.
Almost no antivirus and firewall software.

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[Sylvanas]

Ok thanks guys, I guess I can wait till theres more support for 64bit software/drivers.

 

[ch33kym0use]

64 bit software and hardware is mostly used with servers, not really too useful at home

however ive been using 64 bit software at home anyway

i used the creative drivers with XP x64, not bad on my systems

 

[Some1ne]

Well I have been trying to decide as to if its worthwhile to upgrade to XP64bit for quite a while. Its a free upgrade according to M$ is it worth it?

Yes, just not yet.

...and I've used the 64-bit nvidia chipset, graphics, and IDE/RAID drivers, and the Creative 64-bit drivers, and I had no problems with any of them. Yes the creative ones are still in beta (or were, last time I checked), but they worked fine on my system (I have an Audigy MP3+).

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

well you can still install 32-bit stuff right?

 

[ch33kym0use]

yes thats right

sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt

 

[TSCrv]

VERY big CON..... = the lack of any cd mounting software... talking about annoying, nearly 90% of my stuff is in ISO format, so now i had to clean my closet to find all of my cds.... dont go x64 untill alcohol 120% or daemon tools comes out with a x64 version

 

[l Xes l]

not yet

 

[Sonikku]

Doesn't Far Cry have 64 bit support now?

 

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: TSCrv
VERY big CON..... = the lack of any cd mounting software... talking about annoying, nearly 90% of my stuff is in ISO format, so now i had to clean my closet to find all of my cds.... dont go x64 untill alcohol 120% or daemon tools comes out with a x64 version

There is: http://www.winimage.com/misc/filedisk64.htm