XP x64 or Vista x64?

[molsen]

My build can be seen here: Newegg.com - Once You Know, You Newegg plus a 7900GS overclocked and another 250gb hard drive

I won't be doing much gaming, if any at all. My main uses are photo editing, some graphic design (logos, typefaces, non-3d), web design, music listening and composition, web browsing, pr0n.

The idea of XP x64 being a little leaner appeals to me A LOT, but how is its stability....it's built on the server platform right?

Thoughts? Why XP or why Vista?

 

[Hefemeister]

My thought is that i would go with an internal wireless card rather than a usb wireless. As for OS I would go with Vista.

 

[hikaricloud]

First, you may want to look at the "Green" WD 640gb.

Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar Green WD6400AACS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (bare drive) - Internal Hard Drives

5 bucks more, 140gb more space, but lower cache. Up to you, I've heard nothing but good about that drive.

I've personally heard that Vista 64-bit may be a bit more stable than XP 64, but then again, my information might be a little outdated.

By the way, nice build you got there.

 

[molsen]

that Zonet card is AMAZING though.

Why Vista over XP?

 

[Hampton]

I agree with hefemeister, Vista 64 is the most stable of the windows platform and is more compatible then XP 64 which is almost a beta release.

 

[Crysalis]

XP 64 has crap support as far as drivers go. If it were me, I would just stick with 32bit if you really wanted to stay with XP

I used Vista 64 and it worked pretty well. I had to change back because it doesn't support Dolby -> SPDIF well. I changed to Vista 32 and haven't had a single problem yet.

I would say Vista > XP as far as 64 bit goes.

 

[Hefemeister]

Vista can be a bit more stable. There is going to be more driver support soon and into the future. Vista will have much more support from Microsoft. If you were running less ram xp would be a bit faster but with 4gb vista will run almost as fast.

 

[molsen]

crysalis: I can't run 32bit because I'm going to have 4gb ram MINIMUM.

ok, sounds like vista is the choice. but I'd still like to here from some other folks.

 

[Hampton]

I use 2 gigs of ram and Vista 32 and 64 run flawlessly

crysalis: I can't run 32bit because I'm going to have 4gb ram MINIMUM.

Then Vista 64 is the OS for you

 

[Crysalis]

Then Vista 64 is the OS for you

+1

You shouldn't have any problems.