Win7 or XP for my PC

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Hemps

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I want to Dual boot XBMC Live and either Win7 or XP, depending on which will run my games faster.
Most Modern game's I have is MW2 and Duke Nukem Forever.

what do you think XP or Win 7?
 
The XBMC Live boot will boot into a Sony Amp via HDMI which is connected to a 32 lcd TV.

The XP or Win7 boot will boot onto a 21 led Samsung desktop screen.
 
The spec is good enough for Windows 7, might as well go with Windows 7.
 
DarthCat said:
win 7 64bit. 32 bit will only use 3.5gb ram
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Vista 32 used to only use max 3.25GB (till it got patched in a service pack) but I think since then on windows 7 32bit supports up to 4GB?
 
Eish, and all I had to do was enable pae on ubuntu x32...
 
ToxicWazte said:
Windows 7 64 bit. Forget about XP - it's over 10 years old.
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Still use XP on some of my home machines. When run (and maintained properly) it works fine with anything that has 3.2GB or less RAM.
 
AstroTurf said:
Still use XP on some of my home machines. When run (and maintained properly) it works fine with anything that has 3.2GB or less RAM.
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One of my best friends refuses to let XP go. He hates anything but XP. I have tried and tried, but he doesn't see the light :p
 
AstroTurf said:
Still use XP on some of my home machines. When run (and maintained properly) it works fine with anything that has 3.2GB or less RAM.
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XP works fine - nothing wrong with it, except that it is ancient. When you make the switch to Win 7, you won't ever want to go back. Win 7 also works well on most machines that can run XP. You don't need a killer PC.
 
ToxicWazte said:
XP works fine - nothing wrong with it, except that it is ancient. When you make the switch to Win 7, you won't ever want to go back. Win 7 also works well on most machines that can run XP. You don't need a killer PC.
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I have Windows 7 on my laptop...
Ubuntu on Wife's laptop
Ubuntu and windows 7 at work though I hardly ever use windows 7, except for 3d scans (as well as an xp virtualbox).

Mainly because I love the stability, ease of use and huge amount of work space.

:~$ uptime
09:03:14 up 7 days, 21:48, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.08, 0.11
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I run Windows 7 Home Premium on my Intel Atom based netbook (Asus 1201n). It kicks ass. You will have no problem with your hardware set up and you will prefer it to XP :)
 
What case are you using for your HTPC? I'm deciding what parts to go for but the cases I've seen are a bit pricey.
 
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