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Feb 2, 2007, 01:25 PM
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DriverHeaven Newbie
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Do I need 64bit Win XP for a dual core 64 bit CPU?
I didn't even think of it when I ordered my new system. I currently have the same copy of windows xp home I've had all along. Do I need to get 64 bit XP professional for my Athlon 64 X2 dual core processor to work? I'd hate to have to have to buy a retail copy.. argh
Thanks
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Feb 2, 2007, 01:31 PM
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DH's Dormant Dragon
Join Date: May 2002
Location: IN Rem-Dormancy
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no, the 32bit version of windows will work right outa the box just fine.
just make sure that when you get into windows for the first time, install the latest AMD CPU driver and the AMD Dual Core Optimizer from AMD's website
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Feb 2, 2007, 01:34 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: great yarmouth uk
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thats right i installed just the dual core optmizer after i installed vista , i really would like to know more about the drivers
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Feb 2, 2007, 01:39 PM
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DH's Dormant Dragon
Join Date: May 2002
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The driver is more for other things, xp by default doesn't have really a current up to date cpu driver. I'm not sure if it makes any huge differences, but some games seem to incorrectly operate without it, other games require the optimizer to work at all.
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On the matter of communism, and it's front organizations should not obscure the issues. ~Adolf Hitler
Our enemy is a radical network of terrorist, and every government that supports them. ~George W. Bush An evil excists that threatens every man, woman, and child, of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland. ~George W. Bush & Adolf Hitler
Look in the mirror occasionally, unless you reflect on what has occured in the past, scale those historical moments and forgotten moments to todays current situations, you are bound, in every inconceiveable and unwanted way, to repeat that which you may have swore to never do, and never support. We must awaken, and we must do so now and in mass. ~*pm me for whom*
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Feb 2, 2007, 02:16 PM
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Mars
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Canada
Posts: 2,920
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Don't worry about the driver unless you're running Cool & Quiet, it doesn't affect performance at all, only voltage/speed scaling.
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