My hardware vendor says that I won't be able to install XP on any of the new motherboards, I just wanted to confirm I'm not too much into hardware so I'm clueless about this and google isn't helping much on this Peter Johnson.
It should run just fine. Most likely the fancy tools provided by the motherboard manufacturer to do things like monitoring or overclocking probably work on XP only. One reason you might not be able to install XP, according to the vendor, is that there might be some new hardware on the motherboard that does not have any XP drivers. Of course, that doesn't mean that XP will not run, just that those devices that lack drivers will not work.
Personally, I would install Windows 7 bit. Thanks Peter for the answer. Actually this question was not for me, I have Vista Home on my laptop. My uncle needs a new system. They have some sort of software which runs only on Windows XP.
Their whole work depends on that software it controls their machines and its a heavy software but 4GB RAM is enough, it just needs faster processor. They currently have P4 3. Unsolicited bulk mail or bulk advertising. Any link to or advocacy of virus, spyware, malware, or phishing sites. Any other inappropriate content or behavior as defined by the Terms of Use or Code of Conduct. Any image, link, or discussion related to child pornography, child nudity, or other child abuse or exploitation.
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Details required :. Most have to do with how bad Vista supposedly is, even though they have probably never tried it on a capable system. Oct 12, 1, 0 19, 3. Shadow Champion. Feb 3, 15, 0 51, Beware though that sometimes there are not XP x64 drivers ie. XP x64 is mostly aimed at CAD users and such. DXRick Distinguished. Jun 9, 1, 0 19, The only possible issue would be if the motherboard's drivers do not support XP.
So you can run XP bit on an i7 build. Can you install your current copy of XP on a new system? If you had to buy a new copy, you might as well go with Vista XP will use less than 4G of it, but the system will be ready for you to upgrade to Vista 64 or Windows 7 more future proof.
Nov 17, 1, 0 19, In our office we run AutoCAD, Revit, lots of different commercial engineering analysis packages, old word processing, lots of old engineering programs even some that are written to run under DOS.
Also we have had problems in the past when we mix OS versions on our network so for now we are all staying on the same OS. Can anyone guarantee that we could switch to Vista64 and run everything we want to run? DOS vs. Bring me a computer and they'll run on it. I don't know enough about Vista to know what it will and won't do with really old programs.
Even though the owners of my company have decreed XP only, I'm tempted to order a Vista 64 computer anyway. You guys can feel sorry for me- my current work computer is an AMD Sempron WR Distinguished. Jul 18, 0 18, 0. You can certainly run bit, even older OS's on i7. But old OS's can count multicores as separate processors and limit you with processor licensing pre-XP , or they might not handle physical vs. I don't have XP but assume it matured into the same.
Without SP1, Vista was a whole different story. Vista is noticeably faster at the interface IF you enable Aero. Your windows and desktop are stored as textures on the GPU, so your system does not need to poll the HD and redraw icons and screen portions every time you expose a window previously covered.
That's not to say it'll still be faster than XP if you enable other things on Vista and not on XP - previews, thumbnails, and fancy backgrounds - or if you're on tight resources. Those previews take processing power to generate at first, and Vista is fatter than XP, so you'll notice a lot of slowdown if you have a slow media CPU or a slow hard drive.
Habitat, it's not so much the core CPU speed, as long as it's modern. What aznguy said specifically was "perfect 5. I'm also running 5. No one is saying it isn't a resource hog as with each succeeding version of Windows, but it actually utilizes some resources that XP does not.
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