- Game Test 4 - Mother Nature (DX9)

Mother nature represents the level of effects and realism that are possible using 2.0 vertex and pixel shaders, plus some other features that DirectX 9 offers.

Windows XP x64 does a really good job in this test. The difference is barely noticeable. Below are the full games results. The results must be considered as identical because of the fact that 3DMark has a tolerance of ±2% and so the difference in the FPS could have swung either way.

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15. Application Benchmarks - 3DMark2005

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With 3DMark05, Futuremark continues the tradition in its benchmarking software by providing a state-of-the-art Microsoft ® DirectX ® 9 3D performance benchmark.
3DMark05 is an all new 3DMark version taking the most out of Microsoft's DirectX 9. The previous version 3DMark03, did a nice introduction into this level of technology. However 3DMark03 used DirectX 9 specific features in a limited manner, because fully supporting hardware was rare at the time of its launch. In contrast, 3DMark05 requires DirectX 9 hardware with full support for at least Shader Model 2, and takes shader usage to never before seen levels.
Just like its predecessors, 3DMark05's point system is set so that at the moment of release, the high-end VGA cards available in stores can only score around 5000 3DMarks, whereas the worst card that meets the programs requirements yields a score of 1000.

Game Test 1 -Return to Proxycon

Being the sequel to the "Battle of Proxycon" from 3DMark03, in "Return to Proxycon" we're once again set in space and the battle continues as space pirates invade a cargo ship in order to take control of its valuable cargo.

This test, tries to simulate a future first-person shooter game with all the high details that entails. The dynamic shadows, high-detailed environment and advanced lighting techniques ensure that under normal circumstances, no recent card can run it with decent frame rates.

Game Test 2 - Firefly Forest

A forest gets filled with magic fireflies in the night. The moon is nearly full, illuminating the forest with a bluish faint light. The magic fireflies have flickering bright green lights that playfully move around the forest.

This scene is a nice example of a smaller scale outdoor scene with rich vegetation. Immediate visibility is not so far, and there is a skybox surrounding the whole scene.

A large number of trees with their branches swinging separately, and dense vegetation being dynamically distributed according to the camera movements, make this test the most demanding of the three.

Game Test 3 - Canyon Flight

A Jules Verne type airship flies through a canyon guarded by a dangerous sea monster. The airmen defend their ship using heavy cannons, but these seem to have no effect on the huge sea monster. Finally the crew manages a narrow escape using the "last resort" afterburners of the airship.

This scene is fairly complex with large areas of water reflecting the high canyon walls. The water actually is one of the key points of interest in this scene. The water not only does realistic looking reflections and refractions, it has a depth fog, making the sea monster swimming under the airship actually look deep down in the water. The air in this scene also uses
a volumetric fog, making distant cliffs of the canyon really look far away.

Final Score

 3DMarks on 3DMark05 are now calculated by the following formula:

(Game Test 1 * Game Test 2 * Game Test 3)^0.33 * 250

Below we have the Total score for 3DMark 2005

Just as with 3DMark 2003, this test shows similar performance scores for both Windows versions. However, with Windows XP x64, we have a performance lead of approximately 3% allround.

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16. Application Benchmarks - PCMark04

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PCMark04 is an application-based benchmark and a premium tool for measuring overall PC performance. It uses portions of real applications instead of including very large applications or using specifically created code. This allows PCMark04 to be a smaller installation as well as to report very accurate results. As far as possible, PCMark04 uses public domain applications whose source code can be freely examined by any user.

PCMark04 includes 4 categorized suites for benchmarking your computer. These include a CPU, Graphics, Memory and a Hard Disk Drive benchmark.

We ran all the test for both operating systems.Here are the extended results:

The difference is unnoticeable with most of the PCMark04 tests.

Once again, the differences in the graphics tests puts Windows XP in 1st place because of the WOW64 emulator. Take a look at the results for the transparent windows test under the Graphics suite. In this test, 10 windows are drawn on-screen and then faded in and out. The results then record the average number of windows drawn per second.

In the memory and CPU tests, the differences is also not noticeable. With the HDD tests, we notice a performance increase with Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. This is because of the better memory handling of Windows XP Professional x64 Edition which we have already discussed.

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17. Application Benchmarks - SiSoftware Sandra 2004

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SiSoftware Sandra 2004

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

CPU Arithmetic Benchmark

Sandra's CPU arithmetic benchmark suite uses 2 famous benchmarks (Dhrystone and Whetstone) for stress testing the processor. Also it includes a new version of the Whetstone test that makes use of a processor's SSE2 instructions to show the performance boost an application might gain should it be optimized for SSE2. Unfortunately this does not always represent a true real-life performance, but is useful to compare the speed of various CPUs.

The 64-Bit performance benefits in this test show only 65 iterations per second more with the SSE2 instructions and about 500 more for the Whetstone FPU (floating point) and Dhrystone (arithmetic) benchmark.

CPU Multimedia Benchmark

This test involves the generation of Mandelbrot Set fractals that are used to realistically describe and generate natural objects such as mountains or clouds. By using various multi-media extensions MMX, 3DNow! and SSE(2/3) better performance is achieved.

Here the benchmark takes advantage of the x8 SSE2 instructions for floating points and x16 SSE2 for integers, we managed to get about 5000 iterations per second less (about 23%) with integers and 2000 iterations more (about 9%) with floating point.

Memory Bandwidth Benchmark

This tests examines how your memory sub-system compares to other systems with the same or similar memory. The benchmark is based on the well-known STREAM memory bandwidth benchmark.(The main difference is that STREAM 2.0 uses static data (about 12M) but SiSoftware Sandra uses dynamic data (around 40-60% of physical system RAM). )

Although this test is highly dependent on the memory modules used, we observe slightly lower performance with Windows XP x64.

Cache & Memory Benchmark

This test is based on the Memory Bandwidth Benchmark test. The difference is that the memory index is lower as streaming/buffering/block pre-fetch is not used on this test to increase performance with small blocks (it is usefull only in large amounts of data)

Combined Index: is a composite figure representing the overall performance rating of the entire Cache-Memory performance in terms of MB/s. The value is a result of the logarithmic average of all the results for the entire address space.Here we notice a small lead for windows XP x64

Speed Factor: Represents the speed differences between the CPU's cache and memory. The value is a result of the ratio of the fastest cache (for example L1) bandwidth to the main memory bandwidth, which means that the lower the result, the better for us. Here we have Windows XP professional lagging behind by about 20%.

HDD Benchmark

This Benchmark is a composite figure representing an overall performance rating based on the average of the read, write, and seek tests, and file and cache size. It is intended to represent hard disk drive performance under typical use in a PC. A larger number means better performance. The weighting of the results is not equal that it represents the distribution of different files sizes as used on these devices (obtained through field research).

Combined Index: is a composite figure representing an overall performance rating based on the average of the Combined Index figures over the four file sizes. This test measures the time that 4 files of the following size: 512 Bytes, 32KB, 256KB and 2MB can be read, written and deleted (the number of files per minute). Windows XP x64 shows a performance lead of about 5000 operations per minute.

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18. Application Benchmarks - Science Mark 2

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Science Mark 2.0 is an attempt to put the truth behind benchmarking. In an attempt to model real world demands and performance, SM2 is a suite of high-performance benchmarks that realistically stress system performance without architectural bias. Synthetic benchmarks are useful, and can tell the user valuable performance characteristics about their system's performance, but they should not be used in entirety to measure system performance; this role is reserved in greater part to real applications performing real tasks. Science Mark 2.0 is comprised of 7 benchmarks, each of which measures a different aspect of real world system performance. According to sciencemark.org, the codes in Science Mark 2.0 were architected with general system performance considerations before they were implemented.

Let's take a more detailed look at each benchmark test and what it does:

"MemBench" - An unbiased, synthetic benchmark that sweeps through more than 15 different, publicly available, memory copy algorithms to measure the peak memory performance of your CPU’s caches and your memory subsystem.

"BlasBench" - Scientists and engineers use large matrix multiplication to determine peak MFLOPS. BlasBench measures the MFLOPS of your machine via large matrix multiplication. The benchmark can be run in single or double precision. Real world matrices are often large and don't fit into the processor's cache. Science Mark 2’s optimized implementations of matrix multiplication in single and double precision, from an algorithm point of view, perform remarkably better than the blind man's matrix multiplication routine. BlasBench uses building blocks called kernels at its lowest level that determine overall MFLOPS performance. These kernels are written in C and a wide assortment of assembly forms (SSE Vector, SSE2 Vector, SSE2 Scalar, x87, 3DNow! Vector) to support any processor architecture in the x86 market.

"MolDyn" - Science Mark 2.0 performs Molecular Dynamics Simulations. It has the flexibility of simulating any 5 noble gases, in 3 different crystallographic configurations, with variable numbers of atoms at a user specified temperature.

"Primordia" - Science Mark 2.0 computes the electronic orbitals for the atoms between Hydrogen and Promethium in the periodic table using a Restricted Hartree-Fock method. Primordia outputs the total all electron energy of the atom in addition to the kinetic and potential contributions. The user is allowed to specify different grids upon which the orbitals are determined.

"QMC" - The Primordia orbitals are utilized to simulate and determine the properties of molecules using the extremely accurate quantum Monte Carlo algorithm. Primordia and QMC are indicative of what is done in commercial chemistry codes on workstations and supercomputers about the world.

"FEM" - The behavior and properties of fluids and structures is modeled using the Finite Element Method. Similar tasks are performed by automotive, aerodynamic and civil engineering companies during their product design.

"Cipher" - Benchmark tests four different forms of encryption algorithms, AES 128/256 bit and RSA 512/1024 bit. Sean's AES 128 bit encryption algorithm is quite possibly the fastest implementation on the face of the earth.

Score is weighted thus:

(((Memory Score + Stream Score) / 2) + Cryptography Score + Molecular Dynamics Score + Primordia Score + BLAS Score) / 5

Unfortunately the final version of ScienceMark 2 for Windows x64 Edition is still beta. According to the developer, performance may change in the future depending on how they tune for fp performance. We should see significant speedups on both EM64T and AMD64 processors in 64-Bit mode. Part of this will be due to compiler improvements. : Intel EM64T systems are supported, however, ScienceMark2 won't be able to detect them properly in MemBench at this time. This will be remedied in a future version. Also, CipherBench is not supported in 64-Bit mode at this time. This will be remedied in a future version. The graph below shows us the results of the 32-Bit version of this program that we ran under Windows XP Professional and the results of the 64-Bit version that we ran under Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

As we mentioned before, the Cryptography Benchmark (CipherBench) is not available at this time for the 64-Bit version of this program. This is the first test where we use a 64-bit version and we managed to see significant performance increases. In the molecular Dynamics Benchmark, notice the awesome performance difference of 49%. We can understand that this result is due to the fact that in the 64-Bit architecture, a lot of procedures are completed in less time. Also, in the Primordia test, we have an increase of 9%.

However, in the BLAS/FLOPs test we can see that the Windows XP x64 drops to under 35% but if we consider that this is still a beta program we can expect improvements in a future, stable release. (The improvements of course will concern improved scores and not the opposite).

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19. Application Benchmarks - Pov-Ray

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The Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer (Pov-Ray) creates three-dimensional, photo-realistic images using a rendering technique called ray-tracing. It reads in a text file containing information describing the objects and lighting in a scene and generates an image of that scene from the view point of a camera also described in the text file. Ray-tracing is not a fast process by any means, but it produces very high quality images with realistic reflections, shading, perspective and other effects.

What is Ray-Tracing?
Ray-tracing is a rendering technique that calculates an image of a scene by simulating the way rays of light travel in the real world. However it does its job backwards. In the real world, rays of light are emitted from a light source and illuminate objects. The light reflects off of the objects or passes through transparent objects. This reflected light hits our eyes or perhaps a camera lens. Because the vast majority of rays never hit an observer, it would take forever to trace a scene.

Ray-tracing programs like POV-Ray start with their simulated camera and trace rays backwards out into the scene. The user specifies the location of the camera, light sources, and objects as well as the surface texture properties of objects, their interiors (if transparent) and any atmospheric media such as fog, haze, or fire.

For every pixel in the final image one or more viewing rays are shot from the camera, into the scene to see if it intersects with any of the objects in the scene. These "viewing rays" originate from the viewer, represented by the camera, and pass through the viewing window (representing the final image).

Every time an object is hit, the color of the surface at that point is calculated. For this purpose rays are sent backwards to each light source to determine the amount of light coming from the source. These "shadow rays" are tested to tell whether the surface point lies in shadow or not. If the surface is reflective or transparent new rays are set up and traced in order to determine the contribution of the reflected and refracted light to the final surface color.

Special features like inter-diffuse reflection (radiosity), atmospheric effects and area lights make it necessary to shoot a lot of additional rays into the scene for every pixel.

The below graph displays the time in seconds that the program have to run in order to complete the test.

We have also selected this test not only because it is one of the few available for the 64-bit version, but because we want to examine the benefits of the 64-bit architecture regarding rendering images and complex textures while using effects.

In the test, we selected a resolution of 1280x1024 with an antialiasing threshold value up to 0.3 (to speed up antialiasing, a threshold value is used between pixels. If the difference in color between two pixels is higher than the threshold, then antialiasing is calculated). Parse time is the time it takes to parse the project, photon time it takes to render the Photon map. The photon map is used to render true reflective and refractive caustics by shooting packets of light (photons) from light sources into the scene. The Average Render is the average PPS (pixels per second) that the render took.

With Windows XP x64, rendering was finished 7 minutes faster (30 minutes for Windows XP Professional and 23 for Windows XP x64) which makes it 23% faster than Windows XP Professional.

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20. Conclusion

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Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is an operating system with a lot of opportunities. Currently, there aren’t a lot of users that really need this release, but in the future memory capacities will have reached such high levels that it will be necessary. Programmers, web designers, 3D animators to gamers, all will need this.

According to Bill Gates, Microsoft is going to continue supporting this operating system as well as Windows XP (Professional and Home Edition) for another 10 years. This is because Windows XP is the most successful operating system. Moreover, a lot of the features of the “Next Generation” operating system Longhorn, will be made available in the future for the Windows XP and Windows x64 versions through patches.

Considering this, then it is a very good move to choose to buy this version over other releases. We still recommend you that if you choose to install this operating system, that you create a second partition or install a second hard disk drive to avoid any problems.

Performance Changes

From our tests, we have come to the conclusion that with the new operating system, current 32-bit applications (including games) will have a performance decrease of 1% - 8% although in some special cases there may also be a performance increase of 5%. The benefits of the 64-bit architecture come into their own with 64-bit applications where we managed to see over 49% performance increase and there is still room for improvement. The ability to simultaneously run more applications than ever before, makes this release necessary for the power users.

Security and Compatibility

Considering that there are not a lot of antivirus programs available for this OS at this time, we would suggest you not use this version for surfing on the Internet, especially if you have important documents on your machine that you don't want to lose.

Final words

Microsoft believes that by the end of 2005, all new server class machines shipping will be 64-bit and at the end of 2006, the majority of new PCs and workstations will be 64-bit. This is logical if we consider that the price range will be at the same level as for Windows XP Professional of Home versions and that there are a lot of 64-bit processors to choose from, so Windows XP x64 will dominate in the end. It is the prelude to what will happen when Windows Longhorn Final version is released.

We still suggest you install in a separate partition or on another hard disk drive to avoid compatibility problems, and to check our list for available drivers and the available programs that are supported for now. It will take some time before this will be a 100% safe OS to install, replacing your older Windows. Don't forget to take a look at microsoft.com for more information and how to buy Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

Discuss this review in our Forum.

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21. Drivers Availability

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The following list containes all the drivers that are embedded in Windows XP Professional x64 Edition as they were found in a post from our forum:

Graphics Adapters
(standard display types)
Standard VGA vgapnp.sys (works with onboard ATI Rage XL up to 1280 x 1024 x 24bpp)
(ATI Technologies Inc.)
ALL-IN-WONDER 9600
ALL-IN-WONDER 9700
ALL-IN-WONDER 9800
ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 9200 LE
ATI FireGL D1100
ATI FireGL D1100 Secondary
ATI FireGL T2
ATI FireGL T2 SEC
ATI FireGL V3100
ATI FireGL V3100 Secondary
ATI FireGL V3200
ATI FireGL V3200 Secondary
ATI FireGL V5100 Secondary
ATI FireGL V5100
ATI FireGL V7100
ATI FireGL V7100 Secondary
ATI FireGL X1
ATI FireGL X1 SEC
ATI FireGL X2
ATI FireGL X2 SEC
ATI FireGL X3-256
ATI FireGL X3-256 Secondary
ATI FireGL Z1
ATI FireGL Z1 SEC
ATI RADEON 9600 Series
ATI RADEON 9600 Series Secondary
RADEON 9000U Family
RADEON 9000U SEC Family
RADEON 9200 LE Family
RADEON 9200 LE SEC Family
RADEON 9200 PRO Family
RADEON 9200 PRO SEC Family
RADEON 9200 SE Family
RADEON 9200 SE SEC Family
RADEON 9500 Family R300 dev 4164
RADEON 9500 Family R350 dev 4169
RADEON 9600 Family
RADEON 9600 PRO Family
RADEON 9600 PRO SEC Family
RADEON 9600 SEC Family
RADEON 9600 TX Family
RADEON 9600 TX SEC Family
RADEON 9700 PRO Family
RADEON 9700 PRO SEC Family
RADEON 9700/9500 SERIES
RADEON 9700/9500 SERIES
RADEON 9800 LE Family
RADEON 9800 LE SEC
RADEON 9800 PRO
RADEON 9800 PRO SEC
RADEON 9800 SE Family
RADEON 9800 SE SEC Family
RADEON 9800 XT
RADEON 9800 XT SEC
RADEON X300 Series
RADEON X300 Series Secondary
RADEON X600 Series
RADEON X600 Series Secondary
RADEON X800
RADEON X800 PRO dev 5549
RADEON X800 PRO dev 4A49
RADEON X800 PRO Secondary dev 5569
RADEON X800 PRO Secondary dev 4A69
RADEON X800 SE dev 554B
RADEON X800 SE dev 4A4A
RADEON X800 SE Secondary dev 556B
RADEON X800 SE Secondary dev 4A6A
RADEON X800 Secondary
RADEON X800 Series dev 5548
RADEON X800 Series dev 4A4C
RADEON X800 Series dev 5568
RADEON X800 Series dev 4A6C
RADEON X800 Series dev 4A68
RADEON X800 XT dev 5D57
RADEON X800 XT dev 4A50
RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition
RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition Secondary
RADEON X800 XT Secondary dev 5D77
RADEON X800 XT Secondary dev 4A70
etc...

Buses
USB WIA/PTP/MSC wiawow64.exe/ksthunk.sys/usbstor.sys
All WIA-compliant imaging devices Example : Microtek V6UPL scanner
All PTP-compliant imaging devices Example : Canon PowerShot A60 digital camera
All MSC-compliant imaging devices Example : SanDisk Cruzer Micro thumb drive

Storage
Microsoft RAM Disk
Microsoft RAMDISK Volume

Printers
There are more than 3000 natively supported printers
Epson 600Q ESC/P 2
Epson Action Laser 1000
Epson Action Laser 1100
Epson Action Laser 1400
Epson Action Laser 1500
Epson Action Laser 1600
Epson Action Laser II
Epson Action Laser Plus
Epson AL-1000/1500 Epson Script
Epson AL-1600 EPSONScript
Epson AL-C2000
Epson AL-C2000 PS 3
Epson AL-C8500
Epson AL-C8500 PS3
Epson AP-2000
Epson AP-2250
Epson AP-2500
Epson AP-3000
Epson AP-3250 ESC/P2
Epson AP-3250 Scalable Font
Epson AP-3260 ESC/P 2
Epson AP-3300 ESC/P 2
Epson AP-4000
Epson AP-4500
Epson AP-5000 ESC/P 2
Epson AP-5000 Scalable Font
Epson AP-5000+ ESC/P 2
Epson AP-5500 ESC/P 2
Epson AP-5500 Scalable Font
Epson AP-5500+ ESC/P 2
Epson Compatible 24 Pin
Epson Compatible 9 Pin
Epson DFX-5000
Epson DFX-8000
Epson DFX-8500
Epson DLQ-2000
Epson DLQ-3000 ESC/P 2
Epson DLQ-3000+ ESC/P 2
Epson EPL-3000
EPSON EPL-3000 EpsonScript
Epson EPL-4000
Epson EPL-4100
Epson EPL-4200
Epson EPL-4300
Epson EPL-5000
EPSON EPL-5000/5200 EpsonScript
Epson EPL-5200
Epson EPL-5200+
EPSON EPL-5200+ EpsonScript
Epson EPL-5500
Epson Stylus Color
Epson Photo Stylus 750

The following list is a list with companies that have released drivers for Windows XP x64 Edition as it was found in our forums.

3Ware
Escalade 7500/8500
download

Adaptec
ATA/ATA RAID
RAID
SCSI/SCSI RAID
Included in OS

ATI Technologies
Graphics Drivers
Radeon Family Desktop
FireGL Workstation Family
Mobility Radeon Family
RageXL Server Family
download

AVM
ISDN Controller
B1 PCI
C2
C4
download

Broadcom (Networking)
Ethernet NIC
57xx family
download

Brother
Printers, Scanners, Fax & Media
HL Series
FAX Series
HJ Series
M Series
MFC Series
P2500 Series
Included with OS

Canon
Printers
BJ Series
BJC Series
ColorPASS Series
GP Series
LBP Series
PS Series
Scanners/Imaging Devices
PS-IPU Color Laser Copier
DV Tape Recorder
DV CamCorder
Included with OS

Conexant
Host Controller Modems
CX11247
CX06834
Controller Base Modems
CX8130
DS56-L144-151
CX06827
CX81801
CX20493
CX11253
Soft Modems
CX11252
CX11256
CX06836
CX11254-31
CX11254-512
CX20468
CX20493
Included in OS

Creative Labs
Sound Blaster Drivers
All Audigy sound cards
All Sound Blaster sound cards
download

Emulex
Fibre Channel
LP8000
LP850
LP9000
LP950
LP9802
LP982
LP8000DC
LP9002L
LP952L
LP9002DC
LP9402DC
LP9802DC
LP1000DC
LP1050
LP101
download

Epson
Printers
AL Series
ActionLaser Series
AP Series
EPL Series
FX, LX, MX, RX Series
LQ, SQ Series
Stylus Series
Included in OS

Scanners
Stylus Color Scan 2000
Expression Series
GT Series
Included in OS

HighPoint
SATA RAID
RocketRAID 1820
download

Hewlett Packard
HP Printers
Business Inkjet series
Color Laserjet series
DesignJet series
Deskjet series
Draftmaster series
Laserjet series
Mopier series
OfficeJet series
PSC series
Included in OS

Lexmark
Lexmark Printers
T Series
C Series
E Series
Optra series
Postscript printers series
Included in OS

Logitech
Gaming devices
Racing Wheels
Game Pads
Joysticks
download

LSI Logic
U320 SCSI Controllers
LSI2x320 series
LSI53c1030 series U320 SCSI RAID HBAs
MegaRAID SCSI 320-x series 2Gig Fibre Channel HBAs
LSI40919x series
LSI44929x series
LSI7x02 series
Included in OS

M-Audio
Audio Cards
Delta Series
Revolution 7.1*
Audiophile 2496
FireWire Series
download

Matrox
Graphics Drivers
G450
G450 eTV
G400 Family
download

NVIDIA
Graphics Drivers
Geforce and TNT2
Quadro
Geforce Go Mobile
download

Chipset Drivers
Nforce3 150
Nforce3 150 Pro
Nforce3 250
Nforce3 250 Pro
download

Promise
Serial ATA controllers
download

QLogic
SANblade QLA23xx Series Fibre Channel
Included in OS

Realtek
Audio
AC?97
6-channel
ALC650
2-channel
ALC250
ALC203
ALC100/P
ALC101
ALC201/A
ALC202/A
download

Gigabit Ethernet
RTL8110SB(L)
RTL8169SB(L)
RTL8110S
RTL8169S
download

10/100 Ethernet
RTL8100C(L)
RTL8100B(L)
RTL8110L
RTL8139C(L)
RTL8139C(L)+
RTL8139D(L)
download

Ricoh
Printers
Included in OS

S2i0
Gigabit Ethernet
Xframe
Included in OS

Silicon Image
Serial ATA controller drivers
download

SIS
Chipset Drivers
755
755FX
760
download

Synaptics
TouchPad
Pointing Sticks
download

VIA
Chipset Drivers
K8T800
K8M800
(VIA Raid contollers may also be extracted from this using WinRAR)
download

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22. Programs that are not supported

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Last Update: 13-4-2005 (Don't forget to check our forum also. Notice that the list below is only for the 32-Bit version of the program)

ActiveSync 3.7.1, Microsoft
Acronis true image 8.0
Aquamark3 Benchmark
AVG
BlackICE PC Protection, 3.6.crj
Burn & Go Professional 1.0
CachemanXP
Check Point Enterprise Suite
Daemon tools
Easy CD & DVD Creator 6
Easy CD Creator 5.3.1.154
ESET NOD32 for Windows operating systems
eTrust 7.0
eTrust EZ Antivirus 2005 6.2
McAfee VirusScan 7.02
Napster
Norman Internet Control 5.7
Norman Virus Control 5.7
Norton SystemWorks 2003
Norton Tiny Personal Firewall
Outpost Firewall
Panda
PhotoShop Album 2.0:
PhotoSuite 5.0
PhotoSuite Platinum Edition 7.0
Sygate Personal Firewall
VideoWave Professional 7.0
WMP 10
WordPerfect Family Pack 5
ZoneAlarm Pro 4.5.538 and 4.5.594