First post, by schadenfreude1
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I've been selling, donating, and throwing away lots of hardware before my impending move. I have an ASUS laptop with a 2.0GHz Core Duo processor, 1GB RAM, ATI X1600, and Windows XP on it that I used to run DOSBox and late 90s to mid 2000s games on it. The screen on it is busted, but I always used it with an external monitor, so it's been a nice, relatively portable gaming machine for me. Recently, however, I purchased a 14" HP notebook with a third-generation i7 and a Radeon card for use with CRT Emudriver (similar idea as Soft15kHz if you're unaware). Anyway, I think I can use this new machine to do everything I was doing with the old one and more, but I am wondering if there is a good reason for me to keep the Core Duo machine. I only use these "old" computers to play games, so are there any advantages a Windows XP / 32-bit processor combination can give me for gaming that a Windows 7 / 64-bit processor could not? I am thinking about things like compatibility issues some games may have with the newer processor and OS combination. Thank you in advance.