Need a new desktop with XP

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oldagetraveller wrote: »

However, I've had a laptop and desktop preloaded with Vista Premium and upgraded both to XP Professional

:rolleyes:

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I also disliked vista, then i built a machine that can run it - converted,
old machine - xp
new machine - vista 64 - w00t and all that

Conor_3

oldagetraveller wrote: »

However, I've had a laptop and desktop preloaded with Vista Premium and upgraded both to XP Professional

That'll be a pirate version then will it?

BAAAA.

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why would it need to be a pirate version? Some people are honest, you know!

(though I accept the likelyhood)

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I dare say the majority of people won't have actually bought an operating system retail, relying on the OEM install that came with the machine. .

timbim_2

Or getting their own OEM version afterwards! Go OEM!

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timbim wrote: »

Or getting their own OEM version afterwards! Go OEM!

Which is a pretty remote chance that it happens..

Conor_3

tonyhague wrote: »

why would it need to be a pirate version? Some people are honest, you know!

(though I accept the likelyhood)

Who is going to buy a computer with an OS on it then go pay £120 for a retail version (can't use OEM legally) of the previous OS which is no longer available?

Conor_3

timbim wrote: »

Or getting their own OEM version afterwards! Go OEM!

That's not complying with the terms of the licence.

chopperharris

I would suggest u actually use vista 64 bit for anything like encoding , doubled with 4 gig ram and a quad core processor.Your encoding time saving would be at least 25 percent and perhaps more than 4 times ME and double xp.Msot encoding software has been enhanced for vista and its use of multicores on 64 bit.

Im not a fanboy , I would also recommend a mac for doing the same thing.

Notably you should do more research , you dont need a expensive graphics card for encoding , so theres a saving.Memmory is dirt cheap and if matched and interleaved then performance is boosted somewhat.

I suggest any brand name motherboard , a top notch powersupply , 4 gigs of perfromance ram matched to the cpu ie c2q and ditching the idea of using ide altogether and only using a smallish high perfomance sata 2 hd with a larger sata 2 budget hd to save to after encoding.Then tweak some system settings in vista for perfromance boosts.

Speaking of boost by removing unused programmes and loaded files and drivers , ie junkware used by most programs to auto run , then it works even better...I removed most of the startup software that stays resident and found marked improvements.