XP Professional x64 Edition

[BR7]

I was wondering is XP Professional x64 Edition worth spending money on or should I just stay with XP Media Center

[Chewy]

If you need to run 4-16 gigs of ram, maybe

whoops make that 128 GB

[anonymez]

you're running media center on a desktop?

it is snappier than x86 but not worth the money imho

[BR7]

I don't need that much
I didn't realize it took that much

[anonymez]

it doesn't take that much, chewy meant that 64bit cpu's allow over 4GB ram, whereas 32bit doesnt

[BR7]

Yep I am running xp media on a desktop
Thanks I will hold off then

[Chewy]

it doesn't take that much, chewy meant that 64bit cpu's allow over 4GB ram, whereas 32bit doesnt

not only the cpu, windows xp 32 bit doesn't support over 4 gigs and above 2
there are issues

vista will clean up that mess

[a2j3]

Hello Br7

I run xp pro 64bit and can't wait 2 add more memory. lol

[Chewy]

for true 64 bit performance you need a motherboard like this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813151028

drop a couple of these babys in

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103004

and eight of these

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813151028

[BR7]

I run xp pro 64bit and can't wait 2 add more memory. lol

Thanks for your feedback a2j3

[Chewy]

the big problem besides the extra cost(it's rather cheap really)

same price as 32 bit pro

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Order=PRICE&Page=1&Brand=1149&N=2060350368+50001149&Submit=ENE&Manufactory=1149&SubCategory=368

is driver/hardware issues and software compatibility

[ugp]

Windows 64-Bit really is not worth it right now...no performance gain really in anything at all really. And even right now Vista isn't much gain either with all it's overloaded crap it has...although that is still in Beta of course.

Alot of software is not native 64-Bit...

Stick with regular XP or you can use Windows 2003 Server and that works well too for benchmarking and what not.