Vista

[Angus Smart]

Whos giving it a go?

[jantolis]

Not me!

Don't think my computer will run it very good either.

[insu]

I will be. Only cause i'm getting a free full copy of home premium, office and one care through work. :-)

[Chris_R33GTSt]

Yeah I'm going to buy Ultimate 32bit OEM this paycheck. Its about $300 on www.auspcmarket.com.au I got a 3.9ghz P4 2 gigs of ram, 6800 Ultra 500gb sata 2 storage. At work I tested it on 3ghz P4's with 6600gt's and 1.5gb's of ram.

[2rismo]

I got a 3.9ghz P4 2 gigs of ram, 6800 Ultra 500gb sata 2 storage.

Time for an upgrade!

[Chris_R33GTSt]

HAHA! I am currently trying to squeeze 4.0ghz out of it (setting up watercooling). Also putting another 1TB of storage in. Unfortunately the Skyline comes first as its going off the road in 4 months to get pumped up on steroids Vista runs quite nicely as long as you have LOTS of memory and a decent DirectX9C video card. (Mine is VERY overclocked) When it melts ill buy a new system

Edited January 31, 2007 by Chris_R33GTSt

[MADGT4]

Im gonna look into it purely because my XP is on the blink big time!

So instead of a reformatt in XP im gonna give vista a go, and to all the people that are thinking of getting it dont be suckered in to paying $100's more for a retail version.

Jump on the net and get a OEM version.

Vista Ultimate Retail = ~$700

Vista Ultimate OEM = ~$300

Differance? I think you get it in a box and thats about it. Maybe you get a manual too but... Why?

Good thing is currently my game of choice is CSS again (dunno why i headed back to it) and i deff know it works on Vista so that should keep me happy.

It will be running on a AMD 4000+, 2GB RAM, 7900GT 512mb, 180gb hdd with another 320gb on the way.

Aero should look good, can't wait, wank factor ahoy

[Chris_R33GTSt]

Aero looks awesome but Linux is fighting back and showing some elsupremo eye candy

, Im going to try and get Beryl up and running on my Xeon linux box over the weekend cause it looks SCHWEET. As for Vista, It certainly likes more ram than XP and needs shitloads more storage space but should run very nicely on an AMD 4000+. Go the 64bit version for sure!!!

[MADGT4]

Yeah im deff looking at picking up another 2GB of RAM....

However i dunno if i read correctly but, it says vista can use a virtual drive as ram...

So a 1-4GB Flash drive in thoery could be used as ram?

Thinking about gettin a x2 processor as well but the only problem is AMD dont make socket 939's any more so i have to try and find a decent socketed 939 x2 processor, and there are a couple on Ebay, there was even a 46 or 4800 x2 on there but pricey.

[Angus Smart]

i've just downloaded it and have a crack i think.

give it a bit of a go and see how it performs

and then might think about paying for it if i have to.. tho i think my pc is in need of an upgrade to run it.

[Driver]

nerds

Edited February 1, 2007 by Driver

[MADGT4]

I'll agree with your icon...

After becoming a new Firefox user that Firefox is the shiz....

Nothing wrong with liking technology etc hehe

Love my car more though!

[Chris_R33GTSt]

At least we arn't talking about upgrading to Apple Mac

Edited February 1, 2007 by Chris_R33GTSt

[MADGT4]

At least we arn't talking about upgrading to Apple Mac

LOL

Fair call!

[Chris_R33GTSt]

[ignuz]

Had a computer techy come round to fix dad's comp yesterday.. My dad asked him about Vista and he basically said it's going to be useless for atleast 12 months after release as not many people will be running it and there will be numerous compatibility issues with other people not using vista etc etc.. He also said it's nothing special in general it uses alot of space because Microsoft have tried to make it look really pretty.

So we're all just paying for another of Microsoft's package with a few little tweaks and a bunch of shiny attractive lights, which could just as easily be released as a patch or something.. But Microsoft would never ever do that lol..

[MADGT4]

LOL

GOLD

But not on topic though.

Anyone got any more experience using Vista as yet?

EDIT:

TWEAKS? PRETTY THINGS?

Dude this is a bit more than what this "techy" has so simply put to your dad.

I dont think there would be that many problems with compatibility between Vista and XP cause thats something that would of had to of been considered when building this OS. Not everyone is gonna have Vista, plus ALOT and i mean ALOT of major businesses still use an even older OS, take us for example i work for the SA Gov and we are still using Win 2000, there is talk of us POSSIBLY upgrading to XP this year but. Point is like i said that would of been a major thing to think about when building this OS

Edited February 1, 2007 by MADGT4

[Chris_R33GTSt]

I work in the IT Department at a bleeding edge software developer, and we are currently evalutaing Vista to roll it out to all of our Software engineers in the Sydney Technology Centre. I have had just about every version available (Ultimate, Business and Enterprise) running on machines ranging from an AGP 3.0Ghz P4 with 1 gig of ram and an ATI X1600 Pro video card to a Core Duo E6400 machine with 7950GT video and 2 gigs of DDR667 ram. Vista runs very nicely on the P4, but adding even 512MB more ram makes a massive difference. Also adding a high performance hard drive (eg 7200.10 seagate or even raptor) also makes a great difference. Running on an old 2mb cache 7200rpm drive it was a bit slow loading.

Interesting point was that on the Core Duo machine, Vista FLEW and actually ran faster than XP on the same computer. I would sum this up as Vista having much better multi threaded performance on a machine with multiple CPU's. So it will run really well on any dual core machine.

Here is an flow chart to help you decide if you need to upgrade:

http://www.bbspot.com/Images/News_Features...e_flowchart.pdf

BTW Vista is awesome but just like XP dont screw around with the home versions. Buy at least Business or Ultimate. U can pick Ultimate OEM up for $300 which is a great price.

Edited February 1, 2007 by Chris_R33GTSt

[MADGT4]

BTW Vista is awesome but just like XP dont screw around with the home versions. Buy at least Business or Ultimate. U can pick Ultimate OEM up for $300 which is a great price.

LOL

Flow chart was awesome!

When i upgrade which will be in the next couple of months (give em a lil more time to iron out the security flaws) i'll be going with Ultimate.

Really looking forward to it actually!

SO you say a 7200rpm HDD with 6mb Cache should rock it?

I would love a 7500rpm but i can't justify a smaller capacity for the faster speed.

BTW anyone got a x2 AMD Socket 939 processor above or = to 4000+ that they wanna sell?

[Chris_R33GTSt]

If you pick up any current generation SATA2 7200RPM 16MB cache drive you should be fine. Make sure that it has perpendicular recording as well. The Seagate 7200.10 series drives are the most advanced and reliable on the market at the moment.

A Raptor is a 10,000PRM enterprise class drive. They have an extremely faster seek time and you will notice a difference in load times between a Raptor and any other drive. The only faster drives on the market are 15,000RPM enterprise hard drives and these only come in SAS and Fibre Channel and are also very noisy.

You will also have to take a look at your video card. Vista needs to have a DirectX9.0C Shader Model 3.0 compliant video card to use Aero. This means at least a 6 series Nvidia Geforce or an X1000 series AMD/ATI Radeon.