November 30th, 2008, 08:45 PM
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There is alot of trashing Vista going around. And 98% of it is complete BS.
Vista is a decent OS. It had problems when it first came out, but they are very few and far between now. If you get 4gigs of RAM, then your fine running Vista.
If your a gamer, Vista is worth it that much more for DX10.
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November 30th, 2008, 08:48 PM
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November 30th, 2008, 08:59 PM
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Vista is a good system if you have 2gigs of ram and 64mb (or higher) video anything lower and it might be slower than xp when trying to run some programs.
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November 30th, 2008, 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster  | Yeah I'm checking it out now. Freaking expensive though, $900 just for an Intel Quad Core CPU.
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November 30th, 2008, 09:13 PM
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November 30th, 2008, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by cksboy15 intel has cheaper quads | Yes they do. But finding one cheap in Australia is a whole other story. 
The cheapest one at that site is $313.50: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200
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November 30th, 2008, 09:57 PM
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And that Quad is worthless IMO.
Maybe your best checking into a E7200/E8400/E8500? | |
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December 2nd, 2008, 01:39 AM
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Originally Posted by KarmaKiller There is alot of trashing Vista going around. And 98% of it is complete BS.
Vista is a decent OS. It had problems when it first came out, but they are very few and far between now. If you get 4gigs of RAM, then your fine running Vista.
If your a gamer, Vista is worth it that much more for DX10. | Not to mention that a lot of new games are centered around vista like halo 2 
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December 2nd, 2008, 02:47 AM
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Vista is like XP in some ways, it's just over the years people forgot. When XP came out, most people were still running Win98SE (because ME was terrible). XP took much more horsepower to run, and therefore it took a bit of time until it ran everything as fast as Win98. Vista is similar, however now hardware has caught up with the OS.
One reason Vista is great is because you can overclock your video card too much, and if the display freezes, you see a black screen for 5 sec then the card reboots and everything continues as normal. XP would require a hard reboot. Also, in my experience, Vista x64 is just hands down superior to x32 stability wise, and running x64 more or less requires you have 4GB+ of ram installed. Moving from 4->6gb lets you turn off your pagefile which makes everything scream after an initial load.
Budget constrained a 4850 + Q6600 is hard to beat as a video/CPU combo, however if you are an nvidia fan the 9800GTX+ is still very nice for the price. | |
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