Which windows is best for benching?

[Thanh55]

I join our benching team and very liked it. I just wonder which windows you guys use to bench? I got feeling vista have too many thing run @ back ground and it like slow down your bench. Many thanks for your help.

 

[FarFarAway]

Stripped down XP I would think mate

 

[zak4994]

Or Win98 if it is compatible ofc.

 

[FarFarAway]

Or Win98 if it is compatible ofc.

Nah Win98 doesn't have the right DX compatibility iirc

 

[Ham]

TinyXP is pretty good.

I read a little snippet that 7 was at least better than vista though.

 

[Thanh55]

Another noob question then I don't have any pc run XP so can I use nLite to strip doown XP from its disk? Any change to strip sown vista anyway. Many thanks for your help.

 

[Rastalovich]

I have some distant memory in the back of my mind of using nLite on a laptop that had an OEM i386 folder on it for as XP install cd.

I have lots of memories tho see.

 

[Thanh55]

I have some distant memory in the back of my mind of using nLite on a laptop that had an OEM i386 folder on it for as XP install cd.

I have lots of memories tho see.

Many thanks for your repy but my English very poor so I'm not quite understand what did you mean?! It is mean I have to instal XP on a pc and run nLite from there? Thank you very mcuh for your patient:worship:

 

[VonBlade]

http://www.nliteos.com/

There is a FAQ and lots of stuff to read.

http://www.nliteos.com/guides.html for alternate languages.

 

[nathan]

wooooo, completely off topic, but is that a noble in your avatar?

 

[Hodgstar]

Stripped down XP I would think mate

Is this not hardware dependent?

would you not need a 64bit OS to address more than 3Gb of memory?

 

[de_lenni]

a 32-bit OS can indeed only use 3.2~3.5 GB of memory.

but if you only have 4Gb installed it is not needed to use a 64-bit OS

cus the space of memory that will come available will be filled with bigger variables from the 64-bit OS.

on the other hand if you have 6Gb (triple channel) it is very recommended to use a 64-bit OS

 

[Rastalovich]

U is wrong for the right reasons.

 

[Thanh55]

http://www.nliteos.com/

There is a FAQ and lots of stuff to read.

http://www.nliteos.com/guides.html for alternate languages.

Many thanks for your link, I had download it and will pay with tonight.:worship:

wooooo, completely off topic, but is that a noble in your avatar?

Yep dear:yumyum: its a noble m14.:yumyum:

 

[moogle]

XP with least amount of drivers will do good. Vista will eat 1-2k of your 3DMark scores so I'm guessing it does a similiar (in terms of percent) amount of damage to your benchies