Guest Ken Posted September 9, 2008 Posted September 9, 2008 I am building a system for my daughter, who is a design student and "needs" a system to run her CAD programs. I am told that her instructors urge that the system run WindowsXP 64-bit. I have done a number of installs of the 32-bit version; are there any tricks to installing the 64-bit version (other than checking to be sure that drivers are available for devices)? are there any websites that may be helpful? Thanks Ken Krone
Guest Stephen Harris Posted September 9, 2008 Posted September 9, 2008 Re: WindowsXP 64-bit new install: any tricks? Ken wrote: > I am building a system for my daughter, who is a design student and > "needs" a system to run her CAD programs. I am told that her instructors > urge that the system run WindowsXP 64-bit. > > I have done a number of installs of the 32-bit version; are there any > tricks to installing the 64-bit version (other than checking to be sure > that drivers are available for devices)? are there any websites that > may be helpful? > > Thanks > Ken Krone Well, you need a motherboard that supports 64-bit operation. Most likely you will need to buy a new one. The advantage to 64-bit is that it can utilize more than 4gigs of ram, which means there are fewer disk writes because of more ram. Also the MB must have enough slots to support the memory modules and that is not a given, you have to check on it. For instance, installing 8gigs of memory in only 2 available slots is costly. Also Photoshop CS4 will enter the market in a few months and though it may run on Windows XP 64, only Vista 64 is supported.
Guest Ken Posted September 10, 2008 Posted September 10, 2008 Re: WindowsXP 64-bit new install: any tricks? Stephen Harris said the following on 9/9/2008 12:58 PM: > Ken wrote: >> I am building a system for my daughter, who is a design student and >> "needs" a system to run her CAD programs. I am told that her >> instructors urge that the system run WindowsXP 64-bit. >> >> I have done a number of installs of the 32-bit version; are there any >> tricks to installing the 64-bit version (other than checking to be >> sure that drivers are available for devices)? are there any websites >> that may be helpful? >> >> Thanks >> Ken Krone > > Well, you need a motherboard that supports 64-bit operation. > Most likely you will need to buy a new one. The advantage to > 64-bit is that it can utilize more than 4gigs of ram, which > means there are fewer disk writes because of more ram. Also > the MB must have enough slots to support the memory modules > and that is not a given, you have to check on it. For instance, > installing 8gigs of memory in only 2 available slots is costly. > Also Photoshop CS4 will enter the market in a few months and > though it may run on Windows XP 64, only Vista 64 is supported. Thanks for the reply. I have chosen a mb that will handle 8GB of RAM (ASUS P5K WS) and there are drivers for the video card. Glad for the heads up about Photoshop CS4-I will let her know. She has specified that she absolutely doesn't want to run Vista of any flavor...!
Guest Allan Posted September 13, 2008 Posted September 13, 2008 Re: WindowsXP 64-bit new install: any tricks? "Ken" <noreply@charter.net> wrote in message news:nAyxk.21$Fm4.11@newsfe09.iad... >I am building a system for my daughter, who is a design student and "needs" >a system to run her CAD programs. I am told that her instructors urge that >the system run WindowsXP 64-bit. > > I have done a number of installs of the 32-bit version; are there any > tricks to installing the 64-bit version (other than checking to be sure > that drivers are available for devices)? are there any websites that may > be helpful? You should be posting to microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general where you will find more users familiar with this OS than here. -- Allan
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