Win XP with new components

[pheasant16]

AMD Athlon II X3
MSI 980 mobo
DDR3 memory

can't imagine other peripherals would matter, but will have a sata hd,
dvd burner, pci modem and old pci soundblaster if I can make it work.

Have both XP and Win 7 disks. Most of my programs are 5+ years old, and
made for XP. Still partial to XP after using both.

Will be a replacement for 8 yo desktop.

Most stressful task will be streaming online video to a HDTV.

What I've read seems XP drivers are still pretty much included and not
difficult to install.

Pointers on above ponderings appreciated.

Thanks

Mark

 

[RayLopez99]

AMD Athlon II X3
MSI 980 mobo
DDR3 memory

Pointers on above ponderings appreciated.

I don't see any big problems...I had problems installing a clean
install once when using some SATA drives, when Vista first came out,
forget how I solved it, but it took two days to figure out. But I
would imagine Windows 7 would have by now ironed this out.

RL

 

[Conor]

AMD Athlon II X3
MSI 980 mobo
DDR3 memory

can't imagine other peripherals would matter, but will have a sata hd,
dvd burner, pci modem and old pci soundblaster if I can make it work.

Have both XP and Win 7 disks. Most of my programs are 5+ years old, and
made for XP. Still partial to XP after using both.

Will be a replacement for 8 yo desktop.

Most stressful task will be streaming online video to a HDTV.

Use Windows 7. The Media Center is way ahead of anything else, even XP
MCE2005.

 

[noi ance]

AMD Athlon II X3
MSI 980 mobo
DDR3 memory

can't imagine other peripherals would matter, but will have a sata hd,
dvd burner, pci modem and old pci soundblaster if I can make it work.

Have both XP and Win 7 disks. Most of my programs are 5+ years old, and
made for XP. Still partial to XP after using both.

Will be a replacement for 8 yo desktop.

Most stressful task will be streaming online video to a HDTV.

What I've read seems XP drivers are still pretty much included and not
difficult to install.

Pointers on above ponderings appreciated.

Thanks

Mark

Win 7 over Win XP unless you have hardware without Win 7 drivers, like a
TV tuner or something. Support for WinXP is limited to SP 3, Win 7 runs
pretty good and has run compatibility option for older programs if
necessary.

At least 2Gb or more ram for Win 7, DDR2 or DDR3 depends on your m/b
requirements, but DDR2 is as good as DDR3 especially with AMD. Intel
requires DDR3.