Advice on OS

[Whiplash73]

I'm planning out a new system, with 4gigs ram, and an AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+.

I run Adobe software, like Premier, Encore, and PhotoShop 7, along with some other things that would be 32-bit. I know about the 32bit emulator, but with 4 gigs, would I see a major performance decrease?

Should I go with Windows Vista 64? Or should I run XP 32bit for compatability's sake, and run a single core processor?
I was considering XP 64 bit, but Microsoft doesn't even offer much on it, so I don't think there will be much support for it.

 

[raybay]

I would run WXP Professional... until you know how best to use VISTA 64... you will have problems with your Adobe Software with VISTA 64 until you upgrade them.

 

[Whiplash73]

Is that XP Pro 32bit? I figure Vista should have updated drivers, and hopefully 3rd party vendors are caught up a little better....

Is XP able to utilize both cores on a dual processor?

 

[Technochicken]

XP pro supports multiple cores, xp home does not.

 

[Whiplash73]

Aaaah. thank you.