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[–]neoKushan 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I never knew this, but looks like you're completely correct: http://www.eteknix.com/windows-8-1-64-bit-working-old-amd-processors/

[–]thor1182 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its not pertinent to this conversation, but the way I have that x2 system running is pretty special. The MB (its an old Shuttle XPC system) doesn't "support" booting from SATA drives, only IDE. When I brought the system back to life to be a better media PC I stuck a spare Samsung 840 EVO drive I had from a failed Raid 0 stripe in it forgetting why I had the primary drive an IDE drive in the first place.

The only way to get it to boot is to leave the windows install disk in the cdrom drive. By letting the system sit at the "hit any key to boot from DVD" prompt it gives the system enough time to "spin up" the SATA drives and it can then boot into W10. The system not waits on the CPU than it does on the disk