XP Professional x64?

[Oclock]

Ok guys i was doing my usuall updates and i came across the XP professional x64 for 64 bit systems and you can download a year trial for it. This seems a bit fishy. Has anyone else installed this or even heard about it. Your thoughts please.

[Alexia]

From Microsoft.com? It is legitimate, but it should only be a 120 day trial.

[allanw]

It's not fishy at all. Microsoft is having a public beta test for XP 64-bit edition.

[Oclock]

no it says i can have a 360 day trial

and has anyone tried it?

[THunDA]

You wont find many drivers that are compatible with it.. so I would only install it if your just looking for something to tinker with..

[David Stewart]

I would have to say it is a waste of time. I had it installed for about 2 weeks. I removed it because to me it was not worth having right now. As Thunda mentioned before, driver support sucks. Win XP-64 may be better when it actually fully supports 64 bit computers, but I think it's still too early right now. It looks and acts just like XP-Pro 32 bit, nothing much different except the aggravation of driver problems.

 

David

[Oclock]

ok thanx guys

[Angry_Games]

Sandra 2005 now apparently supports it so you can maybe do some 64-bit benchmarks...should be able to find beta64 drivers from NV, ATI, Creative, VIA (tho these are not VIA boards lol)

[Petrix]

I've installed and tried it, it's abit buggy and unoptimised (arent all MS OSses? ) (memusage after install 430MB ) but otherwise it's ok. I didn't have any big driver problems with it but my 9800Pro works better with the Microsoft's dirvers than with ati's x64-betas. (I also have the 360-day trial.)

 

My suggestion would be to try it out on an other disk/partition, but unless you have lots of mem don't expect mutch . Oh and a sidenote; I wasn't able to install any anti-virus softare on it but I only tried F-secures Client Security 2004/2005-trials.