Core 2 Duo - can I tell the difference

[kony]

Win98 is fine if your using older hardware, but from my experience of using
every operating system and changing some of my hardware yearly, WinXp is
certainly the best operating system to date.
People would never be able to
create dvd quality video without it.

There is no limit to creation of DVD quality video with
Win98 or 2K. Win9x does have the severe limitation of no
NTFS filesystem support so if by DVD quality you mean ~
4.7GB files (which of course will exceed FAT32's max of
4GB), that is a limit, but there's no reason to use WinXP
merely for DVD quality video, or to put it another way, any
of the good codecs and video manipulation tools/software/etc
runs fine on Win2k and some even on Win9x.

The only time I've ever had problems
was with older/bad written drivers.

Ironically enough, that was also the main problem with
Win98, as many people who merely assumed it was very
instable, were having driver (or 3rd party) software
problems and over the course of time, not the course of OS
change, hardware and software vendors released more stable
code. The result is that today, a Win98 system with newest
drivers released for Win9x, is far more stable than 5 years
ago. That doesn't necessarily mean I'd suggest choosing it
for a newer system though.

The only way to find out which drivers
are best is to try them out. When I installed XP MCE, it took me a week to
find out the best hardware/software combination that worked best. And this
time with the hardware and software I use, its the latest drivers and
software from ati, msi and creative(6.18 drivers and 9.15 MMC(mmc is crap
but MCE uses tuners great.).

Creative and ATI both have been notorious for bad drivers,
your situation might be an exception, in that most people
can just download the newest driver from the (product)
chipset manufacturer and do fine.

With my 9600, it was 5.10 and 9.04mmc that
would only work well with XP Pro. I agree with the statement that its the
wrong or not the latest drivers installed that cause crashes( mostly). What
also seems to help is setting your "virtual memory" to work in a different
hard drive that isn't used during gaming or other intensive tasks(preferably
a high quality sata drive. I'm getting sick of IDE.

There is trivial difference between the two. "Sometimes"
SATA is a few percent faster, but it is still barely at the
threshold of human perception and is same situation as any
other hardware, things get a few percent faster year over
year. In other words, there is no reason to be sick of a
drive interface, they can both work equally well.

Trick from Max PC or CPU
mag). I set my virt mem to 0 on my C drive and then right after a fresh
format, alocated 4092mb in my secondary 320 gig drive.

Certain types of XP problems can be compounded if you don't
have any virtual memory on your OS partition. Generally it
is a good idea to have at least a tiny pagefile on that
partition, as XP knows to use the other least used and
larger one first.

(R click My computer,
Advanced, Performance Settings, Advanced, Virtual Memory-Change). For C
drive set "No Paging File" and press "Set". Then click on your secondary
drive and click "custom size". I have my mins and max at 4092.(press set)

That seems a bit excessive. It would take ages to page 4GB.

Careful. If you don't have 512mb ram or higher, might screw your computer
and have to reformat. If this is not done on a fresh formatted HD, the
virtual memory will work further to the back of your hard drive, instead of
right at the front.(slower response)

It would be better to just buy more memory, a well
configured system should never be paging over a gig of data.

 

[VanShania]

Had a bunch of ripped dvd files go corrupt when using win 98 back in 2002.
just thought I would mention it in case others had same problem

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