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<blockquote data-quote="Vargo" data-source="post: 183754" data-attributes="member: 4436">Re: Re: Some advice from a Hardware God...Reply to Grendel:You're right about the VIA chipsets, but they have been getting progressively better.&nbsp; AMD's chipsets are Rock Solid, when you can get them.&nbsp; Problem is, AMD keeps pulling them off the market, because they don't want to be in the chipset business.&nbsp; The NVidia NForce chipsets are also solid, BUT it's hard to overclock them at all.&nbsp; When I say Rock Solid, I mean Intel 440BX Rock Solid, not &quot;Generic VIA POS&quot; solid... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As far as Win2k v.s. WinXP - Some people have okay experiences, some people get the brown stuff.&nbsp; If you're almost always playing new games, 2000 works fine.&nbsp; If you're playing older games (mainly DOS stuff - almost nobody just getting into computers will run into this, unless you've got junkie friends)&nbsp; then XP does have some advantages over Win2k, but they're the same codebase, and my experience has been that the extra cruft on XP makes the OS less stable than 2k.&nbsp; If you do go with XP, make sure you turn off as much cruft as possible...&nbsp; You'll be much happier in the long run.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vargo, post: 183754, member: 4436"] [b]Re: Re: Some advice from a Hardware God...[/b] Reply to Grendel: You're right about the VIA chipsets, but they have been getting progressively better. AMD's chipsets are Rock Solid, when you can get them. Problem is, AMD keeps pulling them off the market, because they don't want to be in the chipset business. The NVidia NForce chipsets are also solid, BUT it's hard to overclock them at all. When I say Rock Solid, I mean Intel 440BX Rock Solid, not "Generic VIA POS" solid... :) As far as Win2k v.s. WinXP - Some people have okay experiences, some people get the brown stuff. If you're almost always playing new games, 2000 works fine. If you're playing older games (mainly DOS stuff - almost nobody just getting into computers will run into this, unless you've got junkie friends) then XP does have some advantages over Win2k, but they're the same codebase, and my experience has been that the extra cruft on XP makes the OS less stable than 2k. If you do go with XP, make sure you turn off as much cruft as possible... You'll be much happier in the long run. [/QUOTE]

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