XP64: Is it worth it?

[Sharingan]

Yes go for it! It won't work but I'm sure it will be a fantastic experience.

?? whats the problem??
fantastic experience?? if you know shit, then shut up

[Mykozo]

Id leave well enough alone, unless you plan on using your computer to fire missiles or something.

I use my comp mainly for audio production, and the increased FLOPS (floating point calculations per second) are a godsend. If I can run 20% more real time plug-ins than before then I will be ecstatic. I am pushing my CPU at around 90% for most of projects I'm working on. Fortunately, my AMD64 has saved me from the numerous crashes I used to get when the CPU would peg out. I am pretty hardcore about ctrl-s every couple minutes, but sometimes when I'm deep into some edits, I forget, and I have lost many an hour of work because of the ridiculous number of crashes.

The problem is none of the DAW sofware I use or the plug-in packs I use are optimized for 64 yet. My audio card has drivers for 64, but without the software support it ain't helping me, yet.

[007bond]

?? whats the problem??
fantastic experience?? if you know shit, then shut up

Wow...ok a pentium 4 is not a 64 bit chip thus Windows XP 64 bit = bad idea.

[Mykozo]

Straight off of MS's website:

•Supported processors: AMD Athlon 64, AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon with Intel EM64T support, Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support
•256MB RAM
•1.5GB available hard-disk space
•Super VGA (800x600) or higher resolution video card
•CD-ROM or DVD drive
•Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

Important: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition cannot be successfully installed on 64-bit Intel Itanium–based systems.