XP64 or 32Bit Support

RaidersGuy · 31 Jan 2015 at 00:24

I'm thinking of going for an Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 but it appears that it don’t support XP64 or 32Bit is this an Intel issue, thanks

spoffle · 31 Jan 2015 at 00:29

Why on earth are you trying to run XP still?

pastymuncher · 31 Jan 2015 at 13:00

XP is long dead and unsupported by anybody now so why on earth are you still running it? Get rid of it and switch to at least windows 7. Supposedly users of 7, 8, 8.1 are getting a free upgrade to 10 when launched.

On Holiday · 31 Jan 2015 at 13:03

Blows my mind.
"Enthusiast" grade hardware and trying to run XP

JasonM · 2 Feb 2015 at 14:30

XP 64 was good however, i ran XP 64 4 years before Windows 7 64.

tom_e · 2 Feb 2015 at 14:41

JasonM said:
XP 64 was good however, i ran XP 64 4 years before Windows 7 64.

My first ever Duron based PC was good, at the time, nearly 2 decades ago.

Orcvader · 2 Feb 2015 at 14:57

You can run both XP 64bit and 32bit on it just fine with no problems... But XP is ancient! It's time to move to a more modern OS

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EDIT: Actually, I lied, there's no proper motherboard drivers for XP, only 7 and 8/8.1.

neil_g · 2 Feb 2015 at 15:39

JasonM said:
XP 64 was good however

i always found it buggy with poor driver support. even vista 64 bit was better

Ben Cole · 2 Feb 2015 at 15:41

Sticking with XP when Vista came out was a fair enough choice. Nowadays one can whine about Windows 8 but Windows 7 is a pretty solid effort.

JasonM · 3 Feb 2015 at 17:14

neil_g said:
i always found it buggy with poor driver support. even vista 64 bit was better

It was more stable than XP 32 and shared it's code from Windows Server 2003 x64, plus I could run 8GB in 2006

I would run 64bit versions of Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft SQL also

After about a year all the major 64 drivers were released, I even had a 64 bit driver for a 1995 HP ink jet, and a 1999 Sony digital camera!

Without XP 64, 64 driver support for Vista and Windows 7 would have been delayed.

JasonM · 3 Feb 2015 at 17:19

tom_e said:
My first ever Duron based PC was good, at the time, nearly 2 decades ago.

Back to XP 64. I think many people tried it at first release, but then abandoned it early on. However once it's first service pack was released and 64 bit drivers it was better then XP 32. Of course Windows 7 64 bit is better, however before Windows 7, XP 64 was in my view the best Windows OS.