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Volyte
Lion's Emporium
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Posted - 2006.11.19 15:13:00 -
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So, I ordered my new computer from ibuypower about a week ago, and it should be waiting for me at my house when I get back to the states in about 10 days (coming home from Iraq...finally). I'll throw the specs out there, because I don't know if they will have an impact on my question (which will be asked at the end - skip ahead if your impatient )
-Core 2 Duo E6600 / ASUS p5n -1 gig DDR2 PC6400 (upgrading to 3 gigs in Jan-Feb) -NVidia 7950 GT 512 -320GB HDD @ 7200 -Coolermaster Liquid Cooling -XP PRO X64
I have been reading up on XP X64 quite a bit lately, and some of the stuff I've found is quite disturbing. I hear its an absolute nightmare for drivers (this should be fixed when Vista goes gold, as most companies from what I understand are waiting for Vista to make their 64 bit drivers) and many games won't play on it, or are unstable at best when they actually do play. Now, at the risk of getting flamed, I play WoW as well as EVE (play WoW because the wife plays, and I have to appease her or...well the married folk understand ... ) and I am concerned that I might have problems playing these games on my new comp. This is especially concerning as I haven't been home in a year and thus have been unable to play the games I love.
Any input from the EVE community on this? Thanks in advance.
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Lithalnas
Amarr Hadean Drive Yards
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Posted - 2006.11.19 16:21:00 -
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I am using it right now, let me tell you that it sucks, all the drivers you have to find, secondly all the drivers are not as fast as their counterparts. Getting my wireless to work involved me manually setting up the wireless card that had a specific chipset and drives from said chipsets manufacturer, then using the device manager to get it to work.
To boot you get weird errors that you would never get with 32 bit. ------------- Cadet Lithalnas - Logistics Division - Hadean Drive Yards
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Volyte
Lion's Emporium
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Posted - 2006.11.19 16:31:00 -
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Originally by: Lithalnas I am using it right now, let me tell you that it sucks, all the drivers you have to find, secondly all the drivers are not as fast as their counterparts. Getting my wireless to work involved me manually setting up the wireless card that had a specific chipset and drives from said chipsets manufacturer, then using the device manager to get it to work.
To boot you get weird errors that you would never get with 32 bit.
Well, that is horrible news. Thanks for ruining my day!!!! lol kidding -.-
Sucks that the rumors I had heard of are in fact true, but theres nothing I can do about it now except buy XP32 bit when I get home. I will probably wait until Vista comes out to ... "downgrade" because from what I understand, all 64 bit drivers for Vista will coincide with the 64 bit XP drivers...soo...
Hopefully the ibuypower tech geeks QC'ed the computer very in depth before they shipped it...really hate messing with drivers and sh**.
Thanks for the reply though. ^^
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Kyozoku
Loot
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Posted - 2006.11.19 21:19:00 -
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I've been using it for around a year and haven't had any real problems with it.
You have to hunt on the net for a lot of your drivers but they work fine now. All those problems people talk about were from around it's launch.
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Andarys
Caldari OCForums
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Posted - 2006.11.19 21:33:00 -
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I've been using it since it was released, yes at first there were some problems finding drivers. I think I've had it crash maybe twice, as compared to all sorts of problems I've had with regular XP. Of course that just might be due to my usage... back when I used win Me a long time ago I never had a problem as opposed to win98 that crashed daily...
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Lithalnas
Amarr Hadean Drive Yards
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Posted - 2006.11.20 05:05:00 -
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grats on the Ibuypower, they really do make good stuff.
I dont know about vista and xp 64, i think if i were to do it again i would wait for them to flesh out the system. ------------- Cadet Lithalnas - Logistics Division - Hadean Drive Yards
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Volyte
Lion's Emporium
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Posted - 2006.11.20 06:57:00 -
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Appreciate all the responses - hopefully all goes well when I get home. If I need any help I will post another topic here and hopefully get it resolved =]
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Xorus
Forum Moderator Interstellar Services Department
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Posted - 2006.11.20 11:17:00 -
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I use XP X64 and have done for about a year now, great piece of software and ok i have 2 pieces of hardware still lacking drivers but neither of them are important and both are older than the OS so its understandable, works a treat not had any issues with 64-bit drivers although you'll end up having to follow the service pack releases for server 2003 as thats what its been built off of :) ---
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MysticNZ
Solstice Systems Development Concourse
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Posted - 2006.11.20 11:22:00 -
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Mostly it is old hardware that suffers and stupid companies like Sony that refuse to release 64bit drivers.
Most common problem I see is wireless drivers on note books. -=====- Xorus is teh nub :D I heard that *beats player with big stick* now be a good carebear and mine me some veldspar - Xorus |
dellie
Euphoria Released Euphoria Unleashed
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Posted - 2006.11.22 09:18:00 -
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im running it for a little less then a year now.. in the start i had problems finding drivers.. but now its not such a big deal.. and ur lucky you have chosen nvidia as gfx... i heared ATI sucks donkeyballs in x64..
p.s. nice stuff you bought m8 :)
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Feng Schui
Minmatar Republic Military School
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Posted - 2006.11.24 21:22:00 -
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Edited by: Feng Schui on 24/11/2006 21:22:41 just built a.. top of the line computer (for the most part)... here were the issues:
1) Poser 5 (3d character graphics program) would not run at all.
2) EVE would constantly CTD during scene changes.
3) There was a problem between x64, my SB Fatal1ty Card, and Geforce 7850 gx2 card.. all I would get was static through the speakers.
4) When installing the audio drivers, if you are not fully patched to the most current patch, the audio drivers will interfere with the boot sector of the OS, and you will need to do a FIXBOOT in order to get windows to load up again. It will say that you need to activate the ACPI in the bios (even though it IS active).
Other than the above problems, it worked great
PS: Drivers aren't that BAD to find I thought, of course, I had 3 other computers I can use to surf the internet / download drivers from.
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Anatolius
Amarr PIE Inc.
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Posted - 2006.11.24 22:20:00 -
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Can't help you with the CPU, as I stay as far away from Intel as I possibly can.
RAM, HD, etc. won't make a bit of difference. Nothing to worry about with that.
Video card, nVidia - good and perhaps the only real choice. Admittedly, I haven't looked into the situation for a few months now, but I was planning on becoming an ATI fanboy until discovering poor driver support for their cards and XP x64.
Liquid cooling... :P
x64 has plenty of driver support now - if you buy hardware made within the last two years, you'll almost certainly find a driver. Main problem is older hardware - I can't use my digital camera on my main box, for example, because Canon is teh sux. :P
Basically, if you're buying new stuff (which you seem to be doing), you'll be fine. Never hurts to check beforehand for drivers, before purchase, though.
Games - I've only run into two problems. Call of Duty: United Offensive, which has to be installed manually (because of asinine programming insisting your processor does not exist or that your operating system does not exist). Not a real problem there - just drag and drop from the cd to your hard drive. Alpha Centauri, for which there are patches/etc., but I've yet to get them to work. :P
WoW, can't help you. EVE will run without any issues.
Strangely enough, if you like vintage gaming.. I've run old stuff (Chaos Gate, Master of Orion II) on XP x64... with better results than running it on XP Pro.
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Eck Hauler
Elite frontier group Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2006.11.24 22:51:00 -
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I had it running on my crappy Sempron 64 for a while, but it seemed the computer got slower and slower over time, although that could have been just windows in general I lived with it for a while, everything worked except for the webcam, and i got warnings on games like BF2152 saying not supported, but it still ran
I upgraded my computer not long ago to the e6300, and just went with xp32.
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Lithalnas
Amarr Hadean Drive Yards
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Posted - 2006.11.25 03:20:00 -
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The latest framework 2.0 patch makes my 64 bit crash, why am i updateing it? because i needed it to fit a reuntime error on NWN 2 startup. ------------- Cadet Lithalnas - Logistics Division - Hadean Drive Yards
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