I have just a quick comment on this.  I have a friend (who is also a
certified geek) that runs Win2k on an Athlon board.  95% of what he uses
this system for is games, and he says it works great.  The only trouble I
have had with games on Win2k is keyboard response with Descent I was very
slow.  Hope this helps.

Kyle Elmblade
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From: "Frank R. Brown" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 6:44 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] dos/windows vs. nt (was Re: [PCBUILD] Questions and
sanity check for planned system)


> Thanks for sharing your experience with us.

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> We are not hard-core gamers, but would like to get
> some high-end stuff working, really as much for the fun
> of experimenting and for the specific games, per se.

<<snip>>

> As far as gaming is concerned, legacy stuff is not a big deal.
> If 70, 80, 90% of modern games would run on our system
> with w2k, that would be fine.  If only 10, 20, 30% of games
> would run, we'd probably go with dos/windows (w98 or w-me).
>
> Thanks again for your advice on this.
>
>
> Peter Shkabara <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > With all this talk of NT/Win2k vs Win95/98, I just had to jump in....
> > I never regretted making the change, although I
> > have had to live with lack of support from software vendors, and
numerous
> > incompatibility issues.
> > ...
> > However, there is a whole lot to like about Win2k but... As I
> > write this, my copy of Microsoft Encarta 2000 does NOT run under
Win2k...
> > ...
> > Before going with Win2k,
> > though, make sure that the software you need will run on it. A good
> > compromise may be Windows NT 4. Almost as good as Win2k, but more
compatible
> > and better supported (by other software vendors - Microsoft does not
support
> > either, Win2k or NT :) ).
>
>      Frank R.Brown

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