Author Topic: My FX53 finally shipped (Read 568 times)

acetnt367th · « **Reply #15 on:** September 02, 2004, 05:51:14 PM »

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Originally posted by Edbert MOL
Cool, seems easy enough, but what is the reason for keeping XP32 around again? Both Nvidia and ATI driver support seems good.

Simple answer to this question :

XP64 is a Microsoft BETA :-)

---- Microsoft XP SP2 still has issues with it and it is very mature software ---- so I guarantee you that at some time you will run in to an issue with xp64. Safe bet is the dual boot. That way you can still play AH when XP64 dies :-)

Acetnt

Edbert · « **Reply #16 on:** September 02, 2004, 06:06:33 PM »

Is the current release THAT bad?

I've worked with MS Betas since NT3.1, generally the Alpha releases were bad but byt the time of B2 or so they were pretty stable (even though many of the newest features may be disabled). The latest build I tried for Longhorn truly sucked so I guess it is fair that the XP64 build might as well. But aren't they about ready for Release Candidate on it?

Kev367th · « **Reply #17 on:** September 02, 2004, 06:29:51 PM »

Personally I've never had a prob with XP64 (yet!!!).
I need the dual boot for Win 2k, got a few progs that need it.

blackfalcon4 · « **Reply #18 on:** September 03, 2004, 05:27:15 PM »

With enough hard drive space and latest Partition Magic you can install a few OS's, I've been as high as 5 seperate OS's just with part mag, more with hdd's.

But anyways, install xp32, xp64, linux, linux64,, then boot to any partition, hide them from each other, and the OS thinks its all alone,, runs great, kinda like having several pc's.

acetnt367th · « **Reply #19 on:** September 03, 2004, 05:35:55 PM »

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Originally posted by Edbert MOL
Is the current release THAT bad?

I've worked with MS Betas since NT3.1, generally the Alpha releases were bad but byt the time of B2 or so they were pretty stable (even though many of the newest features may be disabled). The latest build I tried for Longhorn truly sucked so I guess it is fair that the XP64 build might as well. But aren't they about ready for Release Candidate on it?

Not that it is that bad Edbert, it is just the safe way. By all means, you can install the beta , just be aware that not all of your programs will function perfectly.

I like having a proven backup is alllll

Acetnt

Edbert · « **Reply #20 on:** September 05, 2004, 09:45:41 AM »

I tried briefly to get AH2 running on XP64 and had no luck. I got a very strange error message:

"Initialization failed with -5 mainSN_FAILED -2"

It was not clear which process or module was reporting this. I went right back to XP32 and flew at 1280X1024X32 with all the sliders on full detail, my frame rates pegged at 82-85 (guess what my refresh rate is ). When I get XP64 running I'll see if it drives/flies any better or not.

Defiance · « **Reply #21 on:** September 05, 2004, 04:07:09 PM »

On about the diff from skt 940 and 939, The 940 will be phased out soon/sooner than the 939, But looks like both will be going anyways asap amd can decide whether a skt 900 ot lower pinned one will take over

AMD have still to seemingly sort which new skt revision will finally become the "mainstay revision for 2005"

Kev367th · « **Reply #22 on:** September 05, 2004, 05:09:30 PM »

Socket 940 is the standard for Opteron CPU. You cant use s939 it needs the extra pin in s940 for multiple CPU communication. It is not being phased out.
Only s754 looks like it is going to be phased out eventually.

2005 sees dual core CPU's for both s939 and s940, so they are going to be around for forseeable future.