Does my current system need upgrading for Vista?

[SylEm]

Here's my comp:

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Winchester)
Li PC-65B Case
Seasonic 400W Super Tornado
MSI "K8N Neo4 Platinum" NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra Chipset
4GB DDR (400) PC-3200 Patriot Extreme Performance (Dual-Channel)
Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB
Seagate 160GB Barracuda
PLEXTOR Black SATA DVD Burner Model PX-716SA/SW
Sapphire Radeon X850 XT PCI Express

I plan on upgrading to Vista Ultimate. Do you think I need to upgrade any hardware on this badboy to get the full benefit of Vista along with VERY fast performance for gaming?

 

[Gooberlx2]

My guess is that for decent gaming you'll want a DX10 vid card anyway. Other than that....if your system can't run Vista well then my system is going to make me cry.

 

[Canterwood]

Lol, you posted your system spec when it was already in your sig!

Anyway, rig is fine for vista, but you'll probably need to update your video card for decent fps in games shortly.

 

[tatteredpotato]

Vista isn't near the performance hog it's made out to be. The only thing might be a little newer video card, but it doesn't have to be a DX10 card if you don't have the cash for it at the moment. I ran FEAR at full settings on a 1800XT under RC1 fine. That 4 gigs of memory will be plenty for the time being (I only run 2GB). Wow, never thought I'd actually say ONLY 2 gigs of memory lol.

 

[Tom]

i don't know how important it is, but you probably want one of them memory cards or usb things for that Readyboost thingamajig.

(can't believe I spelt thingamajig right, first try !)

 

[Noema]

Originally posted by: Tom
i don't know how important it is, but you probably want one of them memory cards or usb things for that Readyboost thingamajig.

(can't believe I spelt thingamajig right, first try !)

With 4GB of RAM? 😕

 

[regnez]

Originally posted by: Noema

Originally posted by: Tom
i don't know how important it is, but you probably want one of them memory cards or usb things for that Readyboost thingamajig.

(can't believe I spelt thingamajig right, first try !)

With 4GB of RAM? 😕

My thought exactly. 4GB is already more than enough for just about everything. I would not even consider ReadyBoost as an option right now.

 

[Tom]

Originally posted by: regnez

Originally posted by: Noema

Originally posted by: Tom
i don't know how important it is, but you probably want one of them memory cards or usb things for that Readyboost thingamajig.

(can't believe I spelt thingamajig right, first try !)

With 4GB of RAM? 😕

My thought exactly. 4GB is already more than enough for just about everything. I would not even consider ReadyBoost as an option right now.

Well, I'm not an expert on it, but I think you all don't understand how Readyboost works. I think it's a substitute for hard disk access, not memory access so much. So it ought to speed up a system no matter how much ram there is. Because it speeds up access to info that otherwise would be on the hard drive.