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Has anyone gotten ahold of the XP SP3 Beta?

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Grabbed it from the MSDN site ... but couldn't install it ... and then I got distracted by MACBOOK stuff and haven't returned to it yet ...
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I had it downloading the night before my mobo died, you might have to use a torrent client to get it and demand is high so it takes a while to get. Reports say that not only is it a security update, some say a 10% performance boost occurred after install.
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I always felt there was a performance hit from sp1 to sp2, so maybe sp3 fixes some of that (and more?).

Surely torrents in high demand work better not worse?

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My XP with SP3 is working all so good. Why jump so fast to to SP3 anyways?

Does SP3 have any nasty DRM or other questionable underlining tones to it? :-k

I'm very skeptical of M$ as of late. One machine looses a MOBO due to a weird update, then the stealth update in the Q3, and what is next to follow???

For those jumping onto SP3, you're my ginnie pigs. =D> Have at it.
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I don't know what it is with the torrent, the Us is being banned form a lot of torrent sites, and a lot are being closed down. There were 98 seeds, and 85 leeches and it was running at 8kb down and 5 up. Normally I see 40 to 64kb down, but haven't been on since they started banning us. There is a way to directly download it from the MS update site. Doing it from update it's only 70+ Megs. I needed the redistributable so I didn't try that route.
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Running SP3 on another machine right now, install was slow (several checking/backup steps) but automatic, took 2 reboots at the end before the existing network was seen.
seems as fast as SP 2 was on that machine before (maybe a little faster) and completely stable (so far :roll: )
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I've read reports claiming up to a 40% increase in speed with SP3.
Seems a bit far fetched to me.....
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I'm sure I'll get it once it's no longer beta, but till then, SP2 works. 8)
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Topher wrote:I've read reports claiming up to a 40% increase in speed with SP3.
Seems a bit far fetched to me.....
I saw that too and decided to try it for myself. I installed SP3 on a "throw away" box and ran some benchmarks. Needless to say every benchmark I ran showed SP2 was faster. Maybe since this is an old crappy machine that has something to do with it.
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