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Posted by Windows 98 on Mon Feb 27th at 3:56am 2006

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16837102066
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16837102034
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16837102065

What's the difference, and which should I buy. And why.



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Posted by Juim on Mon Feb 27th at 4:11am 2006

It looks like the most expensive one is three copies of the OS. The other two I don't see much difference.

some nasty pop-ups on that site though.





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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Mon Feb 27th at 4:14am 2006

There seems to be a lot of complaints about drivers not being supported... are you sure this is what you need?




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Posted by Windows 98 on Mon Feb 27th at 11:53am 2006

Id like to have XP Profesional, and I am getting http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103608 so I thought i'd put it to good use wit ha 64 bit version of XP. I will never get home edition. So should I go for a 32 bit version so I can have most of my programs and drivers supported?



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Mon Feb 27th at 1:29pm 2006

I don't know much about software, I was just making sure you saw the negative comments in the user product ratings. You'll have to wait for crono or someone else who knows what they're doing <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by Crono on Mon Feb 27th at 8:51pm 2006

You're getting an AMD64 brand chip ... which optimized ALL 32-bit applications ... do you honestly think that Microsoft would have optimized XP for the 64-bit edition? I bet all they did was write a wrapper for 32-bit XP, which means there's no advantage, just overhead.

Just get the 32-bit edition. It's optimized under AMD64 chips and is widely supported. Oddly enough it costs $2 more.

Also, that chip is incredibly overkill, what could you possibly be doing that requires that?


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by Windows 98 on Tue Feb 28th at 12:12am 2006

Thanks, I acually decided on getting the 32bit version anyway becasue

A) It's cheaper
B) I have it now, and am satisfied (I have an AMD Athlon 64 now also)
C) Someone said that some programs can;t run on the 64bit, and to get a 64bit version of the program you need to pay more for it.



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