xp pro 64 vs vista ultimate 64

[angelo621]

need some advise, i already have vista 64 ultimate on my HDD(a) on my machine. my cousn gave me a xp pro 64 bit and i like to install it in my HDD(b) coz i have 2 HDD on my pc. is there any prob if i install it??
im running 4gb and 8800gtx. im afraid that there will be a harware comaptibility prob if i use xp 64 bit ,most specially in RAM and VGA vard.
so, if theres any good advise frm you guys.

thanks

 

[sanse]

need some advise, i already have vista 64 ultimate on my HDD(a) on my machine. my cousn gave me a xp pro 64 bit and i like to install it in my HDD(b) coz i have 2 HDD on my pc. is there any prob if i install it??
im running 4gb and 8800gtx. im afraid that there will be a harware comaptibility prob if i use xp 64 bit ,most specially in RAM and VGA vard.
so, if theres any good advise frm you guys.

thanks

best thing i can say to have a look at the sites of your motherboard-manufacturer and nvidia.com. if you have a motherboard with a nforce chipset you can find all info at the download-section of nvidia.com.

 

[angelo621]

im a begginer on pc
but whats the common prob in installing xp 64 bit.?

 

[sanse]

im a begginer on pc
but whats the common prob in installing xp 64 bit.?

i don't think installing by itself will be the problem. drivers for the motherboard and the videocard probably will be available. getting drivers for soundcards, printer, scanners, etc will be the problem.

 

[angelo621]

thanks man. appriciate it.

 

[petrossa]

if vista x64 works xp 64 will work for sure. There are more drivers for xp then vista 64 at the moment.

 

[angelo621]

how about the bios of the mobo? can it be confusing if i use two OS?

 

[z3r010]

if vista x64 works xp 64 will work for sure. There are more drivers for xp then vista 64 at the moment.

Nope, there are a lot more drivers for Vista x64 than XP x64.

 

[petrossa]

if vista x64 works xp 64 will work for sure. There are more drivers for xp then vista 64 at the moment.

Nope, there are a lot more drivers for Vista x64 than XP x64.

YMMV having dualbooted for almost a year, there are more drivers for my setup for xp then vista. And the box i had before as well, and i just recently found drivers for my printer and the display drivers for vista were totally crap. I just upgraded my graphics card, upgraded to 8gb memory and put in a quadcore which made it so i could dump xp and run vista as mainplatform.

 

[petrossa]

how about the bios of the mobo? can it be confusing if i use two OS?

the only one confused will be you angelo, the mobo doesn't care much. From personal experience, if you have no special need to dualboot, stick with 1 which performs best on your box.