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XP 64 bit for me ??

imported_Ratman

Junior Member
I am purchasing a Athlon 64 x2 4400 and mainly run World of Warcraft / EQ2 and other online games but also like to do a bit of hobbiest rendering etc. And tons of surfing 🙂

Would buying xp 64bit be a good purcharse or should i not bother would the games mentioned above work ok ??

Any other things should i be looking out for ??

Cheers 🙂
 
Do stable XP64 drivers exist for everything you'll be using? Including, if applicable, printers, scanners, PDAs, etc? In general, XP32 will be much more hassle-free, so even if XP64 supports everything you have, I'd still recommend XP32 unless you plan to have 4GB or more of RAM.
 
TV tuner card drivers are almost non existent. Many other devices are in beta. You should be safe if you only have an nvidia or ATI add in cards and a nforce 4 motherboard. 16bit programs will not run (or ones with 16bit code, like mIRC). Many applications (such as Daemon tools, alcohol 120%, etc.) wont work. Many antivirus products do not work (see my sig).

check out www.planetamd64.com

I live in the hell called xp64bit.

Please see these threads:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1688499&enterthread=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1691079&enterthread=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1655748&enterthread=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1681717&enterthread=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1674043&enterthread=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1660344&enterthread=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1717028&enterthread=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1721067&enterthread=y

World of warcraft works fine (playing it right now in another window) and i also play Everquest 2 (fun game despite what many say), both of those work fine in xp64, thank god.l
 
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