Is windows 8 or 10 compatible with Asus mother board P5AD2 Deluxe?

[Bella_1]

Hi can anyone, please, tell me if windows 8 or 10 is compatible with Asus MB P5AD2 DELUXE.
Yes this system was built in the year 2000.

I do not require to buy another desktop because I am comfortable with iMac, I am only interested in playing with software.

thank you.

 

[basroil]

You're lying or confused, that motherboard is from 2005, not 2000. Anyway, no,your CPU is not compatible with either operating system if it doesn't have NX bit. There's a chance it does, but you haven't stated otherwise so I'll assume no.

If your iMac is an intel version, you can just buy Windows 10 retail and install it on your imac using parallels or bootcamp. If you don't want that, you can get a cheap NUC N3700 system (with SSD and 4gb memory) that's 10x faster than that computer for ~$300 including Windows 10.

 

[photonboy]

2004 actually.

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5AD2_Deluxe/

*There are drivers for Windows 8.1 here, so it's quite possible that Windows 10 will also work. I also see some BIOS updates that may be required. Latest is 1008.009

(You may also like something like Linux Mint which may be a better choice for an older PC, and it is free.)

W10 Insider->
I guess as a beta tester essentially this may qualify for a free version but I don't know the details.
https://insider.windows.com/

You can create an install disc from the MS media creation tool. Not sure if you support USB boot.

 

[photonboy]

You're lying or confused, that motherboard is from 2005, not 2000. Anyway, no,your CPU is not compatible with either operating system if it doesn't have NX bit. There's a chance it does, but you haven't stated otherwise so I'll assume no.

If your iMac is an intel version, you can just buy Windows 10 retail and install it on your imac using parallels or bootcamp. If you don't want that, you can get a cheap NUC N3700 system (with SSD and 4gb memory) that's 10x faster than that computer for ~$300 including Windows 10.

1) Dude, no need to say "lying" here. Let's just assume confused or misinformed.

2) And why even mention a $300 PC when he clearly states he doesn't want to buy one?

3) Bootcamp-> that is a good option, though there is a chart somewhere which specifies which models work with which versions of Windows.

*It appears to be late 2012 iMac and on that has W10 support.

 

[basroil]

2004 actually.

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5AD2_Deluxe/

*There are drivers for Windows 8.1 here, so it's quite possible that Windows 10 will also work. I also see some BIOS updates that may be required. Latest is 1008.009

(You may also like something like Linux Mint which may be a better choice for an older PC)

Still doesn't change the point that the mobo is much newer than 2000 Also, the 925X platform whitepaper only came out in Nov 2004, so I assumed board was probably purchased in 2005

As for Win 8.1 compatibility, like I said it depends on the CPU. If the CPU doesn't have NX bit, no Win 8.1 or 10 (and 7 runs in reduced performance). For example, http://ark.intel.com/products/27472/Intel-Pentium-4-Processor-560560J-supporting-HT-Technology-1M-Cache-3_60-GHz-800-MHz-FSB was one of the best CPUs at the time and it didn't have NX bit.

After CPU though, the next big issue is the graphics card, and there you WILL see incompatibility with all graphics cards (i.e. no drivers) on Win 10 (unless the card was upgraded at some point to a tesla based one), and might have issues with Win 8 if he's using something like a nvidia 5000 series or ati 9000 (maybe the next series after that too, I forgot when they dropped support)

 

[photonboy]

2004 actually.

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5AD2_Deluxe/

*There are drivers for Windows 8.1 here, so it's quite possible that Windows 10 will also work. I also see some BIOS updates that may be required. Latest is 1008.009

(You may also like something like Linux Mint which may be a better choice for an older PC)

Still doesn't change the point that the mobo is much newer than 2000 Also, the 925X platform whitepaper only came out in Nov 2004, so I assumed board was probably purchased in 2005

As for Win 8.1 compatibility, like I said it depends on the CPU. If the CPU doesn't have NX bit, no Win 8.1 or 10 (and 7 runs in reduced performance). For example, http://ark.intel.com/products/27472/Intel-Pentium-4-Processor-560560J-supporting-HT-Technology-1M-Cache-3_60-GHz-800-MHz-FSB was one of the best CPUs at the time and it didn't have NX bit.

After CPU though, the next big issue is the graphics card, and there you WILL see incompatibility with all graphics cards (i.e. no drivers) on Win 10 (unless the card was upgraded at some point to a tesla based one), and might have issues with Win 8 if he's using something like a nvidia 5000 series or ati 9000 (maybe the next series after that too, I forgot when they dropped support)

I'm not going to argue. So it may or may not work. He can create a W10 Install disc for free from the MS media creation tool and try. Free for 30 days though i don't know how the whole beta testing thing works. Is that free?

W10 video drivers may work fine with the basic Windows drivers.

Anyway, I'd personally just install something like Linux Mint to play around with software. I guess it depends on what programs he wants to run that he can't use on his iMac.

WINE also allows you to run some Windows programs fairly well on Linux and there's tutorials for that. I've got CDISPLAY (original progam) for viewing my CBR comic collection for example and it works perfectly.

I put Linux on an old PC that can't run Windows 10 (Sempron CPU that's not compatible). It's just to mess around with but it's pretty smooth for:
a) Google Chrome
b) CDisplay (or similar comic apps)
c) Picture viewing
d) Videos (HD would be problematic for Pentium 4 and depend partly on if he has a GPU that can decode video. Probably minimal GPU decoding such as MPEG2 for DVD's).
e) LibreOffice (Libre word processor which I also use in Windows)