WIN2000 Pro or XP Pro, which is best?

jaybird · Post by **jaybird** » Fri Aug 16, 2002 5:29 pm

I am presently running 98SE/NT4.0 SP5 dual boot. I want to go to one OS that will work with all my "stuff"(see below, I am concerned about drivers) and is SMP enabled. My #1 BP6 has:

2, PIII 850's w/NEO370's(minor overclocking)
512 meg Corsair P133 sdram
1 20gig & 1 60 gig WD hdd 7200rpms
Matrox G400 MAX 32meg dual head vid card
SBLive Platinum w/cambridge 5.1 surround sound
WINTV GO! capture card
4 port firewire card
Adaptec SCSII(for Microtek scanner)
10/100 nic
Sony DVD-ROM burner
Pioneer 104S DVD player
Yamaha 4416S CD 'burner
Kenwood 52X multi-beam CD-ROM drive
HP LaserJet 5L printer
Epson Stylus 750 photo printer
Microtek X6EL scanner

Any help or suggestions anyone?

TNX,

jaybird

RRLedford · Post by **RRLedford** » Fri Aug 16, 2002 11:41 pm

If you want to function in a Windows DOMAIN LAN, you must get XP-Pro.
Other things are crippled in Home too - no file encryption
As far as your H/W, check with the mfr. websites. The Kenwood site states that the 52x ATAPI drive is NOT WinXP compatible not sure about SCSI. Most H/W is no problem, but SIGNED DRIVERS should be obtained if at all possible. I'm still getting too many Blue Screen crashes.

HAL6000 · Post by **HAL6000** » Sat Aug 17, 2002 4:19 pm

I would get 2K Pro. I'm personaly against XP.

Homer S. · Post by **Homer S.** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 3:17 am

I quite agree with HAL: WinXP has so many "better not use it!" features and bugs that ... you'd better not use it

For best results, use Win 2K Pro and/or Linux (the latter should be winner's choice for SMP, too, even if I admit you could get into a bit of a trouble in having all your stuff work under Penguin OS

. Please have a look at this, or search Google, for more info).

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 6:18 pm

Same here.

Win2KPro and UNIX are best for SMP! XP is just Win2KPro with a pretty face on it and more features you don't need. Stupid MS marketing.

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 7:50 am

I've run both, and the only useful feature for me is the better compatibility modes in XP.

Homer S./Hyperspace: I take it you haven't tried BeOS - wrings every last drop from SMP! It beats all the rest

Homer S. · Post by **Homer S.** » Wed Aug 21, 2002 4:11 am

I know BeOS is fine: I had a look at BeOS 5 PE sometimes ago.
I'm keeping an eye on OpenBEOS in order to see how it grows... I'm likely to recover an 8.4 GB Quantum hard disk for free, so that would be an interesting way to use it

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