Close to ordering components. Have a few questions.

[dennilfloss]

Any AMD price drop this week or the next?

Otherwise I am ready to order a PhII 940 and an Asus M3A79-T Deluxe with 8GB of DDR2 PC2-8500 DDR2-1066 CL5-5-5-15 RAM (probably Kingston, I don't plan to overclock the RAM anyway since I can just do this using the CPU multiplier and might not feel the need to o/c until a couple of years down the road). These components will replace their trusty and much-loved Socket 939 counterparts in my sig (which gives you an idea of my upgrade cycle).

Does the 790 chipset + PHII combo still suffer from the RAM dropping to DDR2-800 if all slots are populated? Which feel faster in real-use and gaming experience then, 8GB at DDR2-800 or 6GB at DDR2-1066? Meaning once I have a 64bit OS of course.

Finally, someone might send me a legitimate disk of Vista Ultimate, otherwise, I'll stick to my faithful XP Pro until Windows 7 comes out. No point spending a couple hundred dollars on Vista 64 just to avoid not being able to use all my RAM for a few months and then replacing it with Windows 7 soon after.

 

[o1die]

Newegg was charging a little more for the am3 phenoms, but the price should gradually drop. Frys stores has the 3 core 710 for $124.99. I'd stick with windows xp until the first service pack comes out for windows 7. Xp will probably remain faster for gaming, no matter how much memory you use. 4 gigs is plenty; any more is overkill for most folks.

 

[RallyMaster]

Ehh...I don't notice much of a difference in gaming between XP and Vista. There's a 1-3 fps drop at most in my experience. XP has just gotten so long in the tooth that I have pretty much ditched it in favor of the conveniences found in Vista (and trust me, you'll find them). I was the biggest Vista hater back in the day but everyone eventually comes around.

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: RallyMaster
Ehh...I don't notice much of a difference in gaming between XP and Vista. There's a 1-3 fps drop at most in my experience. XP has just gotten so long in the tooth that I have pretty much ditched it in favor of the conveniences found in Vista (and trust me, you'll find them). I was the biggest Vista hater back in the day but everyone eventually comes around.

its vista that came around, not you .
XP just gets more and more outdated, while vista keeps on having its bugs fixed in the multitude of patches MS released.

Right now, I recommend vista.

 

[dennilfloss]

This is interesting.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=218086
http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=217581

 

[RallyMaster]

Originally posted by: taltamir

Originally posted by: RallyMaster
Ehh...I don't notice much of a difference in gaming between XP and Vista. There's a 1-3 fps drop at most in my experience. XP has just gotten so long in the tooth that I have pretty much ditched it in favor of the conveniences found in Vista (and trust me, you'll find them). I was the biggest Vista hater back in the day but everyone eventually comes around.

its vista that came around, not you .
XP just gets more and more outdated, while vista keeps on having its bugs fixed in the multitude of patches MS released.

Right now, I recommend vista.

Heh, Newton's Third Law states that "To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."

And yes, XP just got more and more outdated, it's almost painful for me to use it now.