Hello everyone,
I hope that this isn't one of those topics that has been beaten to death, but here I go!
I just built an XP gaming rig for all of my games that are too new for my 98SE machine but too old to really work with 7 64bit. Plus, you wouldn't ask me to give up hardware accelerated audio and EAX now would you? Anyhoo, I also have a copy of Windows 2000 and rather than build another old machine (yes I know about virtual machines but I'm not shooting for that), I wanted to know if I could dual boot without wiping the drive and starting over with 2000 first. I realize that it would have been best to start with 2000, but I was not thinking ahead. I have already installed near 50 gigs worth of software (games and OS included) so it would be a pain to start over. I do have a second hard drive that I can use.
The machine:
Asus P5b-Deluxe Wifi AP (Socket 775)
Pentium Extreme Edition 965 (sweet sweet Netburst heat! ) (Did I mention I'm an AMD guy?)
Nvidia Geforce 9800gt (I'm also an ATI Radeon guy...)
4 gigs of Crucial Balistix Sport 800mhz CAS 5 RAM
250gig Crucial SSD
Seasonic Gold 550 watt power supply
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
All wrapped up in traditional a beige case (beige case master race )
The spare drive is a 640 gig WD Caviar Blue.
Thanks for reading!
I hope that this isn't one of those topics that has been beaten to death, but here I go!
I just built an XP gaming rig for all of my games that are too new for my 98SE machine but too old to really work with 7 64bit. Plus, you wouldn't ask me to give up hardware accelerated audio and EAX now would you? Anyhoo, I also have a copy of Windows 2000 and rather than build another old machine (yes I know about virtual machines but I'm not shooting for that), I wanted to know if I could dual boot without wiping the drive and starting over with 2000 first. I realize that it would have been best to start with 2000, but I was not thinking ahead. I have already installed near 50 gigs worth of software (games and OS included) so it would be a pain to start over. I do have a second hard drive that I can use.
The machine:
Asus P5b-Deluxe Wifi AP (Socket 775)
Pentium Extreme Edition 965 (sweet sweet Netburst heat! ) (Did I mention I'm an AMD guy?)
Nvidia Geforce 9800gt (I'm also an ATI Radeon guy...)
4 gigs of Crucial Balistix Sport 800mhz CAS 5 RAM
250gig Crucial SSD
Seasonic Gold 550 watt power supply
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
All wrapped up in traditional a beige case (beige case master race )
The spare drive is a 640 gig WD Caviar Blue.
Thanks for reading!