Win XP with new components

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AMD Athlon II X3
MSI 980 mobo
DDR3 memory

can't imagine other peripherals would matter, but will have a sata hd,
dvd burner, pci modem and old pci soundblaster if I can make it work.

Have both XP and Win 7 disks. Most of my programs are 5+ years old, and
made for XP. Still partial to XP after using both.

Will be a replacement for 8 yo desktop.

Most stressful task will be streaming online video to a HDTV.

What I've read seems XP drivers are still pretty much included and not
difficult to install.

Pointers on above ponderings appreciated.

Thanks

Mark
 
AMD Athlon II X3
MSI 980 mobo
DDR3 memory
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Pointers on above ponderings appreciated.
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I don't see any big problems...I had problems installing a clean
install once when using some SATA drives, when Vista first came out,
forget how I solved it, but it took two days to figure out. But I
would imagine Windows 7 would have by now ironed this out.

RL
 
AMD Athlon II X3
MSI 980 mobo
DDR3 memory

can't imagine other peripherals would matter, but will have a sata hd,
dvd burner, pci modem and old pci soundblaster if I can make it work.

Have both XP and Win 7 disks. Most of my programs are 5+ years old, and
made for XP. Still partial to XP after using both.

Will be a replacement for 8 yo desktop.

Most stressful task will be streaming online video to a HDTV.
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Use Windows 7. The Media Center is way ahead of anything else, even XP
MCE2005.
 
AMD Athlon II X3
MSI 980 mobo
DDR3 memory

can't imagine other peripherals would matter, but will have a sata hd,
dvd burner, pci modem and old pci soundblaster if I can make it work.

Have both XP and Win 7 disks. Most of my programs are 5+ years old, and
made for XP. Still partial to XP after using both.

Will be a replacement for 8 yo desktop.

Most stressful task will be streaming online video to a HDTV.

What I've read seems XP drivers are still pretty much included and not
difficult to install.

Pointers on above ponderings appreciated.

Thanks

Mark
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Win 7 over Win XP unless you have hardware without Win 7 drivers, like a
TV tuner or something. Support for WinXP is limited to SP 3, Win 7 runs
pretty good and has run compatibility option for older programs if
necessary.

At least 2Gb or more ram for Win 7, DDR2 or DDR3 depends on your m/b
requirements, but DDR2 is as good as DDR3 especially with AMD. Intel
requires DDR3.
 
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