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| Thread ID: 39330 | 2003-11-03 04:54:00 | win98 and new p4 system | xerxes3 (4810) | Press F1 |
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| 188875 | 2003-11-03 04:54:00 | am building a new system (p4, 865pe) and dont want to use bloated winxp - any advice/experience for or against on running win 98 on a new system? | xerxes3 (4810) | ||
| 188876 | 2003-11-03 05:35:00 | Running WIN98 would be fine but there are issues re: the amount of RAM that WIN98 will recognise (512MB I think) and the maximum allowable partition size for FAT32 partitions if you're also purchasing a flash new large hard drive. Apart from that WIN98 is as good as WIN XP for the task IMHO. Looking at upgrading myself to either an 865PE or an 875P board soon and positively salivating over the prospect. Might be talking out my bottom here but you might also want to check that there are no problems with WIN98 and dual channel DDR RAM support, as no doubt; your new Motherboard will support dual channel RAM too(if you're upgrading your RAM as well). Cheers Chemical Ali (from an undisclosed location in Central Iraq).... |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 188877 | 2003-11-03 05:51:00 | the ram - of course! will check out the ddr support - need a gig for what i'm doing soooo perhaps no win98. have a 80gb hdd of which win98 recognises 75 with latest bios howz saddam? |
xerxes3 (4810) | ||
| 188878 | 2003-11-03 05:51:00 | you shouldn't have to much of a problem. you can get around the ram 'limit' easy enough. only problem might be due to the high speed cpu'ds but i thought i saw a patch somewhere for it. dual ram dosn't require OS support. just make sure you can get win9x drivers for all your hardware. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 188879 | 2003-11-03 05:53:00 | hardrive also is no problem. simply partition it into more managable sizes. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 188880 | 2003-11-03 07:36:00 | I agree with your other respondent on this thread -- all the problems are solveable -- just wanted to alert you to the potential pitfalls. Saddam is okay -- thanks for asking. He's obviously unable to respond to you himself at the moment but personally asked me to thank you for your enquiry. Praise be Allah! |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 188881 | 2003-11-03 07:48:00 | You pretty much have to run XP if your CPU supports hyperthreading... Only XP supports hyperthreading, so using 98SE will make the PC not reach its full potential. Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 188882 | 2003-11-03 09:50:00 | thanks all, you've provided what i need to know (and what i'd overlooked - esp the hyperthreading) my first post, answered quickly and clearly, great stuff xerxes3 |
xerxes3 (4810) | ||
| 188883 | 2003-11-03 13:59:00 | do a partition and try a multi boot system with 98 and or 2000 or Xp etc | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 188884 | 2003-11-04 01:56:00 | How much software uses hyperthreading? I believe that's like parallel processing --- needs software specially written to use it. I'm surprised no-one bit. ;-) Someone considering not using the latest MS OS. :O |
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