What is your operating system?

As a result of being in an unusual position, for me, of having 4 computers, I have Windows XP Pro, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows 7 Ultimate, and Windows 7 Starter. In my opinion, they're all fine ... yes, Vista too. Hey, they all work; they do what I want to do with them.

I've also dabbled in Linux, mainly Ubuntu. I have Ubuntu 10.4LTS installed as a virtual machine on my Win 7 Ultimate system.
 
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what does one have to do with the other? You have a 64 bit processor, enough RAM, and a 64 bit enabled motherboard, you can run 64 bit windows 7 if you want to.
 
For me, I have Windows XP Pro x64. I so far can't afford to buy Windows 7 64 bit. Maybe this summer I will be getting the system builders version.
And XP Pro x64 been running flawlessly for 2 yrs now on my machine.
 
Darkserge said:
I thought 32 bit work for single and duel core and 64 bit work on quad core.
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No. There are single core (sempron, celeron) that support 64 bit. All modern (athlon 64 and newer, Pentium 4 6*1 and newer) processors support 64 bit with the possible exception of Atom, i don't think all of them are 64 bit compliant.
 
wolfeking said:
All modern (athlon 64 and newer, Pentium 4 6*1 and newer) processors support 64 bit with the possible exception of Atom, i don't think all of them are 64 bit compliant.
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The newer Intel Atom CPUs (230, D410/425, 330, D2500/2700) are definitely 64-bit capable. The older chips however with the FSB are only 32-bit I think.
 
Im trying out windows 7 pro, its not perfect and it likes to act up,cause i just got it installed and its picky at what drivers i install, but it sure is fast.
 
i just got my drivers updated and working, had to use a vista driver for my video card.
And i updated windows, windows loaded most of my drivers for me. And i installed internet explorer 9 which is much faster.
*My computer is listed below*
 
Windows 7, Professional especially, is a rock-solid OS. I did however run on it on similar specs to you cabinfever, 2GB RAM, P4, GF 8400 GS, and it was a pain in the neck sometimes, but it was the old system I was running on it, not the OS itself. I have since run Professional on my system in my signature (using Ultimate now just because I can, they're pretty much the same OS) and it was absolutely fine.
 
I got everything running good and fast now,i even had to clone my 7,200rpm noisy hardrive to change to a quieter 5,200 harddrive, now its fast and quiet.

The only problem now is my keyboard acts up somtimes,it pauses or freezes for a min or my numlock light comes on sometimes.

as far as windows,i had to choose one that would fit on a 4gb thumbdrive cause thats how i installed it, cause i dont have a dvd drive,so it was either home edition or pro that i could get easyly and have it fit on the usb thumbdrive.
 
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It may be that your motherboard is so old Cabinfever. If I were you I would look in to an upgrade. The Pentium 4 processor really lacks in processing power. We cannot even use them at my work. We only need to have about 15 windows open at a time for various programs for IT Help Desk support.

Pentium 4s are so very obsolete.

I would suggest looking at a system build that you could use at least an Athlon II Dual-Core Processor with.

ASUS M4A88T-M AM3 AMD 880G Micro-ATX Motherboard - $80

AMD Athlon II 250 (3.0 gigahertz) Dual-Core Processor - $52
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-Athlon-...sor-/260964278552?pt=CPUs&hash=item3cc2aee118

G.SKILL NS 4 gigabytes (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) RAM - $23
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231394
 
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