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Is the Time Right for Vista?

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ispofdoom

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Hello,

First off I realise this is quite a frequent topic here, so please, if you're going to flame, press that handy back button at the top left.

Onto my question: Is it worth upgrading from Windows XP to Windows Vista yet? I'd be going for Home Premium.


More info about me: I'm upgrading primarily because of DirectX 10, and because I realise that people will eventually all be on Vista (so why wait?). It's a sort-of preliminary stage 1 for an upgrade i'm considering....

Current System:
DFI NF4 Ultra D Mobo
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ socket 939
Legend Gf 7600GT 256MB
Corsair DDR 400 Cl2.5 1gig
Seagate 160GB SATA150 Hdd
320GB Western Digital IDE Hdd
Samsung 19" 913B LCD screen

soon-to-be New System (italics are the changes)
Asustek M2N-E SLI
AMD AM2 X2 Dual Core 6000+
Asustek nVidia Gf N8800GTS 640MB PCI-E
Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 2GB
Seagate 160GB SATA150 Hdd
Western Digital 320GB IDE Hdd
Samsung Syncmaster 226BW 22" LCD screen
Samsung 19" 913B LCD screen

So... should I get Vista. Have the bugs it had on release been smoothed out? Is there anything I should be aware of when making the move? (I don't know much about Vista)


thanks for any responses.

 
hey, well u surely will have the horsepower for it, so thats not a reason to hold u back. either way u should check for drivers and compatibility. i have 64bit hp on my laptop for 2 months now and i like it.
dont know what bugs ur refering to but there are lots of updates and fixes, and vista is getting better.
for me vista can do anything xp can, and has a couple of features i like, nothing out of the ordinary, but in the end the sum of its parts make me like vista more then xp.
 
cool, good to know. I remember hearing from some people about how bug ridden it was at the launch. I don't know any specifics, sorry.
 
i didnt encounter any major bugs in vista. i guess most of the bugs and crashes are due to bad drivers, and messing around with registry. my laptop has every driver so i didnt have any isseus with that. though i messed up my registry and had problems but i made a backup, restored it and everything worked just like it had before. for an xp user u have to get used to not 'tweak' around in registry
 
Yes and gaming performance is fine,even compared to XP,Link.


If you were debating between the 32-bit and 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista, fortunately it looks like performance is similar with either version. Both AMD and NVIDIA?s drivers for both versions of Vista perform practically identical to one another. And if you were concerned about game compatibility with 64-bit Vista, one of the guidelines Microsoft has required for Games For Windows certification is that games must be compatible with Windows Vista x64. This means if the game has a Games For Windows logo on the box, it?s been tested to run with 64-bit Windows Vista. Upcoming games like Alan Wake, Crysis, Fallout 3, Gears of War PC, and Hellgate: London are all Games For Windows compliant.

Considering all this, we?d recommend our readers opt for the 64-bit version of Vista if you?ve got a 64-bit CPU. It runs just as fast in games with the added advantage that it?s more secure and can address considerably more memory (4GB max in 32-bit Vista versus 128GB in 64-bit Vista Ultimate).
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It seems the only people who really complain about Vista are those who try to put in on too light weight of a machine. I've been running Vista on my PC (AMD 4600+, 2gig DDR 800, X1800XT) and it runs beautifully. I don't know if it's the visual effects or what, but everything seems much smoother over XP imo.
 
yeah there are dozens of topics about how vista sucks, too bad these get in the viewers eye sooner. cuz if u dont have problems u dont have anything to post 😛
as far as my laptops vista x64 is conserned i disabled a couple of visual features from the sticky i read and it really makes it fast 🙂 i kept aero thought 😛 😀

this was my 10th post 😀
 
thanks for all the replies. I think I will aim to get Vista installed (maybe tomorrow?) If theres anything else I should know for the install please let me know 🙂
 
Originally posted by: ObscureCaucasian
It seems the only people who really complain about Vista are those who try to put in on too light weight of a machine. I've been running Vista on my PC (AMD 4600+, 2gig DDR 800, X1800XT) and it runs beautifully. I don't know if it's the visual effects or what, but everything seems much smoother over XP imo.
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Shoot, I've been running it on a production machine at work since RC1, and it's only an A64 3400+, with a fairly weak Radeon 9550 AGP video card. Yeah, it does have 2GB of RAM, but that's a relatively recent addition given the plummeting prices of DDR2. Performance is fine, no issues at all. Aero is fine, all apps run quickly and smoothly, even down to video encoding.

I would definitely go with Vista for any new build.
 
Why are you building an AM2 box? The 6000+, even overclocked with water, gets pwned by an E6600 or E6750.

On the OT : Vista is fine. I would recommend using a spare drive to load XP on, so in case you run into troubles of any type, you have a ready-to-go platform to lean back upon.
 
Originally posted by: ispofdoom
Hello,

First off I realise this is quite a frequent topic here, so please, if you're going to flame, press that handy back button at the top left.

Onto my question: Is it worth upgrading from Windows XP to Windows Vista yet? I'd be going for Home Premium.


More info about me: I'm upgrading primarily because of DirectX 10, and because I realise that people will eventually all be on Vista (so why wait?). It's a sort-of preliminary stage 1 for an upgrade i'm considering....

Current System:
DFI NF4 Ultra D Mobo
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ socket 939
Legend Gf 7600GT 256MB
Corsair DDR 400 Cl2.5 1gig
Seagate 160GB SATA150 Hdd
320GB Western Digital IDE Hdd
Samsung 19" 913B LCD screen

soon-to-be New System (italics are the changes)
Asustek M2N-E SLI
AMD AM2 X2 Dual Core 6000+
Asustek nVidia Gf N8800GTS 640MB PCI-E
Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 2GB
Seagate 160GB SATA150 Hdd
Western Digital 320GB IDE Hdd
Samsung Syncmaster 226BW 22" LCD screen
Samsung 19" 913B LCD screen

So... should I get Vista. Have the bugs it had on release been smoothed out? Is there anything I should be aware of when making the move? (I don't know much about Vista)


thanks for any responses.
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Have you considered just getting a 939 socket X2 and just overclocking it to save money? Your motherboard supports Vista very well and I just do not see it as worth that extra expense to be moving sideways platform wise.

Just upgrade the memory to 2 gigs and buy that new hard drive along with an X2 and your current system will be as powerful (After Overclocking) for far less money.
 
It's certainly a possibility for me to get the best socket 939 CPU I can find... I'm still deciding on which Mobo/CPU/Ram to get. The store I've been to before to get upgrades done only stocks the latest socket CPU's from Intel/AMD. I am on quite a tight budget. The main reason for the upgrade is to be able to run next-gen game engines like UT3's and Crysis.

Arkaign - I might look into Intel's options more, but they are considerably more expensive where I am (NZ)
example
The E6600 with the cheapest Mobo and Ram I can find (Asustek P5PE-VM, Adata DDR2-667 Non-ECC 2GB) comes to NZ$641.71 (US$476.95)
The AMD 6000+ with a cheaper Mobo and decent Ram (Asustek M2N-E SLI, Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 2GB) comes to NZ$610.61 (US$453.82)

ok fine. the diff isn't as much as I thought it would be. But, the mobo on the Intel option is a very cheap one, likewise with the ram. I'll look into the specs on them, even more research to do... *sigh*

Should I repost this in the hardware section? Or is this ok to continue here?
 
Yeah, I'm not exactly dissing the 6000+, but if you went Intel (check E6750 pricing btw), you have two benefits :

(1)- You *know* for 100% certain, that you could drop a quad-core and work beautifully on the same platform. That's supposed to be an option on AM2, but nobody can say for sure in 100% certainty that Phenom will work reliably on existing AM2 chipsets, and even if they do, how well they will perform compared to the upcoming chipsets redesigned for Phenom.

(2)- You have better performance today, and with even mild overclocking on the 6600 (or 6750, which might even be less expensive), you will dramatically outperform the 6000+ (hell, even the 6400+).

Back on the OT, do you have an extra drive and copy of XP? It might be worth running XP for a few more months, then getting a new OEM copy of Vista SP1. Fresh installs are always > upgrade installs, and personally, I'd rather install an OS with the latest SP already integrated than manually slipstreaming a burned disc, or patching the hell of the existing one.
 
I have had absolutely no problems with Vista 64-bit on my rig (in sig). It's blazing fast, rock stable, more secure, more polished, with a better, more logical GUI, modern features that can better utilize today's hardware and it's pretty to look at to boot. The only reason I still dual boot to XP is my Line 6 Guitar Amp Modeling hardware, which unfortunately has no 64-bit drivers.

Other than that, I am utterly in love with Vista and always recommend it to anyone with the right hardware to run it.
 
No.

March was probably the right time. Somewhere around then is when nVidia got most (not all) of the bugs worked out.

I've been running it since RTM in November 2006.
 
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