re: Athlon 64 and Windows ME
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 10:15 pm
Posted by Steve
(23810 messages posted)
As long as they make motherboard drivers for ME, and
you do the vcache tweak, you should probably be OK,
bet you are the first though to install ME on that type
system.
On Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 11:00 am, spiff0077 wrote:
>I've been running ME on my current sytem (Athlon XP 1600+) for about two years with
>zero problems. I've loved ME, and for me it has been very fast and stable. I read
>lots of complaints about ME, but its never given me any problems, and has been more
>stable even than 98SE was on the same system.
>
>I have ordered some upgrades (new MB/RAM/CPU), and I would like to keep running
ME
>if I can.
>
>Are there any known problems with ME and the AMD Athlon 64 processor? Here is exactly
>what my new components will be.
>
>ASUS A8V Deluxe MB,
>Athlon 64 3000+ (Winchester Core),
>1 GB Corsair Value Select PC 3200 (2x512).
>
>I will be keeping a couple of ATA hard drives, my vid card (Radeon 9500PRO), a CD-R,
>and my modem from my old PC. All of these currently run fine under ME.
>
>I have read a little about possibly needing to tweak the VCache settings in order
>to run 1 Gig of RAM, but I haven't heard of any other potential issues with my future
>setup.
>
>Thanks in advance for any replies.
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