Hi! I was just wandering... how would win98SE run in latest-tech machines (talk about dual core CPUs)? I mean will it run at all? I always liked win98SE rather than XP or Vista, but never tried it on anything faster than a P3 500mhz...
If it wouldnt work at all... then which would be the fastest hardware on which you could use Win98SE?
Thx in advance...
Hi FrodoPLM and welcome to the forums!
I'm fairly certain that you could run the latest-tech machines in Windows 98SE without any issues. The trick however is that I do not know what type of real performance gain you would actually see. The other thing is how 98SE would react to seeing 2 CPUS (Core 2 Duo). In that way since the software is not built to take advantage of 2 CPU cores I think it would try to do all of the work on just one core. In other words just one good single core CPU in the last couple years would make performance fly in 98SE.
Here is a good example:
Notice how my processor score is a 5.7. I am running a
Core 2 Duo E6700 @ 3.2GHz. No matter how hard I try to overclock the score remains at 5.7. Earlier this year I was actually running a
Core 2 Extreme QX6700 and my score was 5.9 across the Vista Windows Experience Index. And I got 5.9 in the processor category without any overclocking.
What's interesting about that however is that Windows Vista realizes that although the E6700 and QX6700 both are clocked at 2.66GHz the QX6700 is a Quad Core CPU and has the ability of doing more work at a given time than the E6700 (Dual Core) can do.
In my opinion then in many ways it would be a waste to take such nice new technology from today and use an old OS that would not take full advantage of it. I have been using Vista for almost 4 1/2 months now and I love it!
Hope that helps.
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