I would like all of you to give me your honest opinions on running WinXP as opposed to Win2k..I am running the Abit KR7a Raid ,Xp1700 Cpu,and 512 meg of DDR,and a Radeon 7500..both my hard drives run on raid ports;2 ata 100 40 gig drives. Ive run every Windows OS ive come across,And it seems to me under loaded circumstaces win2k out performs XP :roll: so You guys tell me what you think....WIN2K or WINXP? MrCleen

well id say wait till the service pack comes out for WinXP and then decide

Put it like this.
NT 4 = NT4.
Windows 2000 = NT5
Windows XP = NT5.1 (Check the system properties of some files & all, they'll verify this BTW)

If windows xp performs slower its because it has a bit more going on the background, e.g. System restore, & more resource intensive desktop themes. You can disable them. Just go with XP, it's better.

I've found WinXP to be a lot more reliable on newer hardware than Win2k. I get far less crashes and the system seems to run much better even after a few days without a reboot, unlike w2k which seems to hate most via boards.

Most benchmark comparisons people have done, winXP works out to only a few 3dmarks less than win2k, so unless you're a 3dmark addict like some people I'd definately go with XP.