amd xp on a 2k system?

[Atticus]

bout a week go my mobo went and today my 4+ years 1.2 athlon went. so im looking at giong to a 2.5 xp but im running windows 2k. will this interfere any or should i upgrade my os just for the hell of it?

 

[ilkka]

Athlon XP has nothing to do with Windows XP. No need to change operating systems when changing cpus.

 

[Slava]

Originally posted by ilkka
Athlon XP has nothing to do with Windows XP. No need to change operating systems when changing cpus.

Yup, you can even run Windows 98 on athlon xp. It's only if you want newest operating system. XP is nice, so is Windows 2k.

 

[Atticus]

alright cool, thanks.

 

[mobiux]

Originally posted by Atticus
bout a week go my mobo went and today my 4+ years 1.2 athlon went. so im looking at giong to a 2.5 xp but im running windows 2k. will this interfere any or should i upgrade my os just for the hell of it?

Um, I think you may want to look into a new power supply if your cpu and mobo went out a week apart.

Just a thought

 

[wayne]

amd athlon xp is a generation of CPUs

microsoft windows xp is an operating system

i think one or both of them stands for experience

yea, they're two different things, you can run different operating systesms(OS) on different CPUs... i guess its pretty easy to get it confused

 

[OldMX]

Just make sure you use this patch from AMD

Good Luck

OldMX

 

[tdg]

2K works just fine with new Athlon XP's. I installed DOS 6.2 & Windows 3.11 on my XP 1600+ just for kicks and it ran fine, and really, really fast