OS performance

[Big Stan]

Great site everyone. I downloaded the software 3 days ago and have been tweaking and playing with it ever since.

I will be installing a stand alone system for GBPVR functions only. I am using a P3-866Mhz with a 150 tuner card and 324Meg of ram and a 120GB drive. I haven't bought one yet but will be getting video card with tuner out to connect to my S-video on my TV.

My question is is there a performance advantage to going with XP versus 2000. Either one will be a fresh install. Has anyone compared the two.

Great forum and thanks for any help or experiances that anyone can provide.

[sub]

You'd find no performance advantage (or very little) in either with GBPVR. Personally I'd go with XP.

[betlit]

i would go with winxp. it's my impression that it takes less time to boot than 2000. i have a tv compy similar to your specs and xp takes ~15-20 seconds to wake up from hibernation.

and with a tool like n-lite you can reduze the size of your xp/2000 installation, by installing only components you need.

the performance of gb-pvr is also ok. sometimes when calling the tv guide over live tv/video/dvd, the picture stutters a bit before actually displaying the guide.

but i would suggest to add more ram.

[erik]

May I voice a small argument in the other direction?

Windows 2000 seems to require less memory and is extremely robust
I am very happy with my always on gbpvr setup.
Runs for weeks (months even) without reboot.

Of course there are no interactive applications running on the system, only a web server, a mail server and a UPnP content server.

[A_Brass]

I run it on both and it works fine, that said I think it depends on what OS you have already. My situation was to keep costs down, Until my wife was convinced of its usefullness. (success!!)

I used win2000 because I had a copy and it worked great. I wouldn't go buy a copy of winxp uness you need too.

[valkokir]

my system is pretty similar. though I have more ram. I have great results with GBPVR in XP. I disabled all of the eye-candy garbage in XP to reduce cpu load as well as disabling some unnecessary services. The antivirus and other such programs you choose are going to affect performance as well. For example when I first built the system I used Norton antivirus and it just used too many resources. I have since switched to PC-Cillin with good results. Disabling things like automatic downloading of Windows updates will also help.

I don't worry about boot times because I just put the system in standby. I don't know how much electricity I waste by doing so but I figure it costs less than the wear and tear of heating up and cooling off my components, so I've heard. I reboot about once a week.