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Try opening 30 IE windows and I guarantee you'll get a BSOD! I need 30 IE windows constantly so WinXP is for me! hehe!

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Not even one, running it now; I was trying to talk to you like to the _MAN, explain stuff, basically I was saying Man, well, I think enough explanations, sigh.
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lol, hehe

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Jiffy, I use 3D Studio max, and that's a real memory guzzler. After running Max, and then say Half-Life, win 98SE would give me 2% free resources (1.2 Ghz T-Bird, 512DDR, Quadro DCC). Now, how can such a powerful system get low resources that fast- teh fastest I got 2% free was in 2 mins!!! Win98SE is junk for me. Maybe for u it's perfect, cause the apps you mentioned aren't intensive.

My rice car will leave your R8500 in the dust!
 
Oh, yeah, and about stability. My dad trades stocks, so sometimes he uses my comp (even though he has 2 supercomputers at work), for small stuff. However, if there are stability issues, ie it crashes, that could mean serious loss ($$$).

My rice car will leave your R8500 in the dust!
 
Try opening 30 IE windows and I guarantee you'll get a BSOD! I need 30 IE windows constantly so WinXP is for me! hehe!
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Yeah, Win98se wouldn't like that.
I realize XP is good for some depending what you use it for,
buy how many people need to open 30 IE?
And why do you need to open so many IE up? Educate me.


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Tom's hardware (like 15-20 windows or so, one for each forum and refresh every 10 min), MS Word/Excel if I have hw, Borland Delphi 5, if I don't, ICQ, MSN and the odd card game such as the very addictive Spider Solitaire!

AMD technology + Intel technology = Intel/AMD Pentathlon IV; the <b>ULTIMATE</b> PC processor
 
Tom's hardware (like 15-20 windows or so, one for each forum and refresh every 10 min)
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Dude, how do you do this? I'd like to know! :smile: I'll probably do the same...

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Thanks for answering that. I can see how XP would be good for that. I may come across like I'm against XP, but I'm not. I still plan on getting XP, just as soon as I update this computer and have enough spare parts for another PC to try out XP. Which I'll use for the Internet.

defrage is child's play-fdisk
 
Oh! My bad!
(Dang, that's a lot of Windows to refresh, though...)

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""Try opening 30 IE windows and I guarantee you'll get a BSOD""

""Tom's hardware (like 15-20 windows or so, ""

- so where is 30? and you won't get BSOD (dont really know what that means), but after 20 IEs you could get a message that "there is not enough memory, blah, blah, blah, try to close some windows, blah, blah, blah." on AMD system (never had that on Pee3 system), and what is really funny, _Man, but I have to admit that you have some brain, because after I get 15 IE windows open just to hold truck of what I am looking for, I am starting to get lost, so you are the _Man, hehe.

By the way, have you ever tried XP on AMD K6 or K6-2 series? It is slower than 486 with 98SE (just for the info)


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I think everyones is just getting sucked into Microsofts marketing strategy. Sure XP is new and exciting but in my opinion "if it aint broke don't fix it". People should stop and ask themselves if the have done anything practical or productive with XP that they could not do with Win98SE. I tried XP and 99% of my daily computing needs(photo editing, video editing, music, games, surfing the internet, etc) can be done just fine with Win98SE if you have a fairly fast processor with a good amount of ram. I can do everything I need to do right down to video conferencing in 98. Windows XP has a lot of bells and whistles built in(this is microsofts marketing strategy that forces youto use their software)but you can find almost all these features in other programs that have proven reliabilty for Win98. Performance is not any better than Win98 cause I benchmarked both and 98 came ahead. So I ask this question again, Do you really need XP? Well if you have money to burn, heck why not?
 
BSOD is Blue screen of death but of course it varies from computer to computer. You might just get an Out of memory message or a BSOD. 10 other windows are like ViaHardware, PCWorld, Sharkey Extreme, Anandtech, etc.

BTW, it has nothing to do with the processor. Win9x/ME allocate a limited amount of system resources for compatibility purposes. Once those resources are used up, you get crashes.

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To bad WinXP doesn't clean house it would make this more one sided.

In short it sounds like were no farther ahead then from the beginning.

If you have Win98se get the upgrade, unless Win98se does what you want.
If you have Win2000 no need to upgrade.

This is debatably, but simply passed my means.


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The reason I asked here, is cos you guys are playing a lot with PCs and OSs, and sometimes I am asked by my friends to build a PC for them, and there is a dilemma with OS, and I have to give them a RIGHT decision to go with, cos they have kids who play their kids' games, which not always go with 2000 or XP, but they ask for "Best" OS there is, so I am kinda in the middle (I can fix 98 or ME if there is a problem, but they will come to me (you see what I mean)). So I asked this question to as many as I could to find out what is best way for now. I am sure in the future most of the software will be done for XP and NT core, but this "near" future is going to be for at least a couple of years or so...


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Stability. That's the reason. MSFT should have got it right the first time, but 98se crashes left and right. ME didn't work at all. XP is pretty damn good. Definitely worth the upgrade.

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gg, dhlucke, did you just wake up? Win2k was out for 2 years now, and XP is build on it, heh

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It all depends on your system. Surely, you cannot expect 98SE to run great on an economy line system. I had nightmares with 98SE when I first started building systems. Win98SE needs at least a 1 ghz processor, 256 mb of ram not to mention a good chipset on your motherboard to run properly. It needs lots of everything. Most people who run 98se are below that level. Most computers that come with XP are at this level already and sure, their gonna run fantastic. I'm not saying 98se is the best but a properly configured system with 98SE installed will definitely hold its own(performance wise) against XP. For someone who does not want to spend the money, and can get a copy of 98SE for nothing, what the heck, it aint that bad. Myself, I run 98SE on one rack for gaming and when I want to do my video and photo editing I take out my 98SE drive and slide in my W2k rack.Its like having 2 separate computers. You can't go wrong that way.
 
What?? Win98SE DOES NOT NEED a 1GHz processor and 256MB RAM! What are you talking about? lol, I'm running it on my P133 perfectly! I'm running WinMe on my AMD K6-2 450MHz machine also without problems.

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