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Typhoon2000
PostPosted: 05 Jun 2009, 20:13 
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I am thinking on getting a second GTX 280 on the cheap for a SLi set up, torun new games in SLi I will need the latest nvidia Drivers. Given the continousing issues with Vista divers and 5040x1050 / custom resolutions, I wonder if installing a copy of XP on a second Hard disk and dual booting as needed may be the way do go. So is XP32 working with the latest drivers for everyone?
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Gilly
PostPosted: 05 Jun 2009, 20:26 
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one other consideration of 32 bit OS is the 3GB addressable memory limit.

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PostPosted: 05 Jun 2009, 20:36 
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Yep, I hear even with 280 GTX SLI (2GB RAM total), you still get around 3GB free. Is that right? I think I can live with that given than XP needs less of it to run than Vista which I run at the moment with 4GB total.
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