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Vista or XP

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What performs better and is just easier to maintain, XP or Vista (or Windows 7?)?
 
What Gwarren said but I also offer Win 7 as an alternative to both, providing you already have it.
 
I've had no troubles maintaining an SMP VM along with 2-3 GPUs on my Vista machine. How many GPUs are you running? I think Vista get's nasty if you are trying to fold on more than 5 GPUs. That's the only situation where XP really shines supreme as far as I know.
 
flogge said:
I've had no troubles maintaining an SMP VM along with 2-3 GPUs on my Vista machine. How many GPUs are you running? I think Vista get's nasty if you are trying to fold on more than 5 GPUs. That's the only situation where XP really shines supreme as far as I know.
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Pretty much, above a certain number of GPUs, XP is superior and dummy plugs aren't necessary. If you'll be using a 64-bit OS, I think Win 7 is probably the best desktop MS OS. I have a system with two GPU clients and a -bigadv VM running in Win 7.
 
if you plan to run more then 2 GTX 295's or 9800GX's then windows xp is required.. if your not then go with windows 7.. driver recovery is a nice thing with vista/7 that xp doesnt have so if you have stability issues.. then its a wonderful battle with BSOD's in xp..

xp = no display port limits vista/7 have a 8 display port limit.. gtx 295/9800GX2 count as 3 display ports per card..
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
if you plan to run more then 2 GTX 295's or 9800GX's then windows xp is required.. if your not then go with windows 7.. driver recovery is a nice thing with vista/7 that xp doesnt have so if you have stability issues.. then its a wonderful battle with BSOD's in xp..

xp = no display port limits vista/7 have a 8 display port limit.. gtx 295/9800GX2 count as 3 display ports per card..
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This response.

I'm only be running 3-4 gpu's per box. I also have 8 Vista licenses that i haven't used (though I have quite a few xp licenses too).
 
Vista is better than xp as u get better quality atleast :|
moreover xp is better in performance lil
but vista still
and win7
i still dont know even i should got with it or not read many topics related errors in win7
 
heaven~lord said:
Vista is better than xp as u get better quality atleast :|
moreover xp is better in performance lil
but vista still
and win7
i still dont know even i should got with it or not read many topics related errors in win7
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I can't even follow what you are saying.
 
Windows 7 does not require dummy plugs!

Use windows 7 bro.


Windows 7 needed dummy plugs before the finish of the beta. After the initial release it was already patched and fixed.
 
I think its the latest drivers that let you fold multi nvidia cards without dummy plugs.
It also think they let you fold on two cards which are still in SLI.

But all my boxen run XP64 Pro, so I've no way of testing if its true.

Luck ......... :D
 
I'm under Win 7 64 Pro, and I do need dummy plugs or the cards EUE on the next WU. I haven't tried the latest drivers tho. I also notice a drop in points, probably due to aero.
If you don't need 3gb ram+ / bigadv, XP will do the job.
 
Interesting info in this thread. On the one system in my farm with Win 7 running, I need dummy plugs for all cards. I have the latest drivers installed as well. I found out that even the primary display requires either a monitor or dummy plug if you reboot. Once in Win 7, a monitor/plug is not required but if I reboot, one client will fail If there's no dummy plug attached to the primary display. This is an OEM Win 7 X64 Ultimate installation. Like zero2dash stated, YMMV.
 
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