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Im running 64-bit vista ultimate. My experience with it has been the same as my experience with windows xp 32-bit. It is satisfactory.
 
Running XP x64 on my main rig.

Mainly because there's decent drivers for my hardware and with the low cost of ram atm I upgraded to 4GB.
 
Used to run XP64bit, drivers were a nightmare (nvidia does not support their nforce3 line and before), had to go back to 32bit.
 
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Used to run XP64bit, drivers were a nightmare (nvidia does not support their nforce3 line and before), had to go back to 32bit.
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Are there any S754/AGP motherboards with good drivers for x64?
 
Originally posted by: XBoxLPU
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Used to run XP64bit, drivers were a nightmare (nvidia does not support their nforce3 line and before), had to go back to 32bit.
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Are there any S754/AGP motherboards with good drivers for x64?
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AFAIK VIA's K8 series of chipsets(including the K8T800 and K8T800 Pro) are well enough supported.
 
Originally posted by: ViRGE
Originally posted by: XBoxLPU
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Used to run XP64bit, drivers were a nightmare (nvidia does not support their nforce3 line and before), had to go back to 32bit.
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Are there any S754/AGP motherboards with good drivers for x64?
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AFAIK VIA's K8 series of chipsets(including the K8T800 and K8T800 Pro) are well enough supported.
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Interesting.

I may look at switching.

How are VIA drivers in Vista?
 
Really I have no need for a 64-bit OS right now. When I upgrade my PC and go with 4GB, I will get 64-bit Vista though.
 
Vista 64. It runs about as good as 32bit does.
I do notice pauses in firefox 2.0.0.6 a lot though.
XFI drivers dont work, so using onboard sound.
 
Originally posted by: gizbug
Vista 64. It runs about as good as 32bit does.
I do notice pauses in firefox 2.0.0.6 a lot though.
XFI drivers dont work, so using onboard sound.
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Odd...I've never had any issues with my X-Fi and Vista 64-bit.

 
Originally posted by: Noema
Originally posted by: gizbug
Vista 64. It runs about as good as 32bit does.
I do notice pauses in firefox 2.0.0.6 a lot though.
XFI drivers dont work, so using onboard sound.
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Odd...I've never had any issues with my X-Fi and Vista 64-bit.
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FF2.0.0.6 seems to work fine.
X-Fi now and then (with 4gb ram only) will make static/hiss annoying noise.
(Work-around: Until CL gets its ass together, in order to fix it, go to Device mgr, just disbale and re-enable it, then it will work again)
 
Originally posted by: videopho
Originally posted by: Noema
Originally posted by: gizbug
Vista 64. It runs about as good as 32bit does.
I do notice pauses in firefox 2.0.0.6 a lot though.
XFI drivers dont work, so using onboard sound.
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Odd...I've never had any issues with my X-Fi and Vista 64-bit.
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FF2.0.0.6 seems to work fine.
X-Fi now and then (with 4gb ram only) will make static/hiss annoying noise.
(Work-around: Until CL gets its ass together, in order to fix it, go to Device mgr, just disbale and re-enable it, then it will work again)
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I do have 4GB of RAM and a X-Fi, and so far, no issues 🙂 *knock on wood*

But it's good to hear that there's a work around.
 
64 bit Vista Home Premium here.

A little tricky to instlall, I purchased a downloadable 64 bit upgrade version. The 32 bit WinXP enviornment could not read the 64 bit setup executable. I couldn't find a 64 bit bootable image on the web (legally) to make a install DVD.

So, I burned an trial verson of XPpro64 CD. Installed that, then ran the Vista upgrade from that enviornment. Clean install option was then available.

They only things I have run into are just minor annoyances like.

1. My Mcafee Virus Scan subscription does not support Vista 64. Using Avast now without all the cool mcaffe stuff like firewall, anti spam, and that web page rating tool.

2. Riva Tuner wants to disable driver verification. And I don't want to disable any of Vista's security features. So I have not found any background hardware monitoring stuff yet. If any of you know of any please let me know.:thumbsup:

*edit spelling*
 
Originally posted by: DaveBC
2. Riva Tuner wants to disable driver verification. And I don't want to disable any of Vista's security features. So I have not found any background hardware monitoring stuff yet. If any of you know of any please let me know.:thumbsup:

*edit spelling*
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Disabling driver verification is no big deal. Vista x64 limits drivers exclusively to stuff that's signed, if you disable verification then it falls back to how x86 does it in that it allows unsigned drivers to be installed, but it also warns you about it first.
 
Originally posted by: ViRGE
Originally posted by: DaveBC
2. Riva Tuner wants to disable driver verification. And I don't want to disable any of Vista's security features. So I have not found any background hardware monitoring stuff yet. If any of you know of any please let me know.:thumbsup:

*edit spelling*
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Disabling driver verification is no big deal. Vista x64 limits drivers exclusively to stuff that's signed, if you disable verification then it falls back to how x86 does it in that it allows unsigned drivers to be installed, but it also warns you about it first.
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Thanks for that bit of info. I'll reinstall Riva Tuner.:beer:


 
Disabling driver verification is no big deal. Vista x64 limits drivers exclusively to stuff that's signed, if you disable verification then it falls back to how x86 does it in that it allows unsigned drivers to be installed, but it also warns you about it first.
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Which is the whole point, disabling it means that any driver can be installed from Riva Tuner to Sony's Rootkit. If the driver has to be signed there's a much better chance that it'll be legit.
 
Right now I have a dual-core socket 939 system with 2 gigs of RAM.

When I see some 64-bit only games I may think about a totally new package.
Probably skip right past socket AM2, go for 4 gigs of RAM and Vista 64.
I suspect around that time we will have plenty of video cards based on the new PCIe standard.

So basically I am happy with my current WinXP system and wont do anything until its absolutely required.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Disabling driver verification is no big deal. Vista x64 limits drivers exclusively to stuff that's signed, if you disable verification then it falls back to how x86 does it in that it allows unsigned drivers to be installed, but it also warns you about it first.
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Which is the whole point, disabling it means that any driver can be installed from Riva Tuner to Sony's Rootkit. If the driver has to be signed there's a much better chance that it'll be legit.
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IIRC, Sony's rootkit was signed.
 
Desktops: 32-bit Debian - just easier until software packages like Flash and Skype get in gear. Yeah, it would be nice to just not use them, but once in a while I need them and I don't need >2GB of memory yet, much less 3 or 4

Virtual server host: 64-bit Debian - it's the only machine I have that might realistically need huge memory in the foreseeable future, even though it's fine with only 2GB at the moment

Virtual server guests: 32-bit Debian or 32-bit OpenBSD - each guest serves very limited functions and thus have only 384MB - 512MB of memory, and none of them do any kind of number-crunching that would make good use of extra registers
 
Originally posted by: DaveBC
Originally posted by: ViRGE
Originally posted by: DaveBC
2. Riva Tuner wants to disable driver verification. And I don't want to disable any of Vista's security features. So I have not found any background hardware monitoring stuff yet. If any of you know of any please let me know.:thumbsup:

*edit spelling*
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Disabling driver verification is no big deal. Vista x64 limits drivers exclusively to stuff that's signed, if you disable verification then it falls back to how x86 does it in that it allows unsigned drivers to be installed, but it also warns you about it first.
Click to expand...

Thanks for that bit of info. I'll reinstall Riva Tuner.:beer:
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Riva Tuner is now happily monitoring temps in systray.😀

 
4gb ram
security
With my sytem Vista 64 runs very nice for most things.
No real reason other than I want to:laugh:
 
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