Vista question

[Haui]

Is it really necessary to have a dual or even quad core machine to run Vista? I am thinking of either building a new machine, or upgrading my following machine:

Dell GX280
P4 2.8GHZ
1.5GB DDR2 400
500GB HD
onboard audio/video/lan

Would maxing out the ram (4gb), getting a new PCI-E card, and getting the fastest LGA775 CPU I can get (cant support dual core at all) be good enough to run Vista, game, email, small office things - decently?

Please let me know your thoughts....

 

[DaveSimmons]

My first thought is: why bother?

What Vista feaures do you want to go through all of this cost and effort to have?

 

[VIAN]

I don't think you NEED dual core to run anything these days. Unless you do a lot of encoding/decoding, dual core is practically useless. I don't think you'll have a problem running vista with that setup. Except it may be better for you to get a PCI-E graphics card, depending on which version of Vista you get.

As far as playing 3d games, the biggest thing you could do to increase performance on your PC would be to buy PCI-E graphics card.

On buying a new computer: I'd wait till quad core comes out - it's just around the corner.

 

[lxskllr]

The computer you have now will work fine for Vista. The Aero interface may not work with the integrated graphics, but otherwise it should be fine. I'm using Vista and loving it, but I kind of have to side with Dave. Vista doesn't have anything that you really need. I'd wait until you get a new computer, and move to Vista then. If you have the money to burn(building a computer will get rid of that ) and want a software toy to play with, then go ahead. Otherwise I'd wait.