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is xp 64 worth the time and trouble

tony929292

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hey guys this is kind of ben covered but if anyone has windows 64 is it worth it itried look to see if my hardware has 64 bit drivers and most is a no like my printer hp psc1350 does not but hp said it will be out soon which is not a big deal i can wait on that but what about cd drives do they need drivers to or will xp64 have them and add on cards like my firewire pci card which the manufacture probably wont make a 64bit driver the audigy2 has them but i am just order the fatal1ty x-fi and there no driver on the site
what i am getting at is at least some of my componts do not have 64 bit drivers so is it worth it what good is a 64 bit os if it cant run half the stuff the 32 bit can?
i need help to decide it the last leg before i boot up for the first time

my system
p4 660 artic silver tt big typoon
asus p5n32 sli (in the mail just came out the 18th)(sli 2x16)
aspire 680 watt psu
4gb ocz 5400 gold
x-fi fetal1ty card
hp 640 and plextor px 716
areogate3 fan controller
2 80gb wd rapotors
3 usb 3 firewire card (for bluetooth on inside case)
bfg 6600 gt oc (pci 16) for now but....
15 lcd sony hp allinone1350
 

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my post is a useless one...but your cd drives should work fine as for anything else i dont know....but i really whanted to post to say...SWEET RIG :)
 

tony929292

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Processor intel q9450 at 3100 artic silver5 tt big typoon
Motherboard asus p5n32e-sli plus
Cooling 13 fans total that includes heatsink fans etc
Memory 4 gb ocz gold pc5400 oc to 775 2.1 voltage 4-4-3-4
Video Card(s) 1 bfg7800gtoc oc to 510/1800 at 1.5v valmans fatal1ty 36c idle
Storage 2 80gb wd raptors raid-0 , 1 seagate barracuda 160gb
Display(s) sony sdm-hs53 + fan controller 3.5 internal card reader and 1 internal floopy
Case Logisys Dracula Case blue
Audio Device(s) x-fi fatal1ty
Power Supply aspire 680watts sli
Software vista unltimate x86
thanks still need some minor thing card reader floppy drive and wire mods that a bitch fried psu and mobo takes FOREVER to do that but happy i did give me reson to get the p5n32 from p5nd2 and better psu, pic soon as i tweak and get benchmark scores and above shit ^ but lets not get of track 64 OS
 

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64 bit windows doesn't quite have enough driver support yet, IMO.

Unless games are programmed in 64 bit it offers no speed increases, actually its a bit slower.

I haven't used it in over 6 months, perhaps driver support is better now?
 
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