todd Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Vista should run fine on my machine, I'll just upgrade a few components as time goes on and it'll get better from there. MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester 2x512MB Geil RAM GeForce 6600GT PCIe 120GB Seagate IDE Hard Drive What I really want to upgrade right now is my monitor and my hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shifts Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 seems a nice way of making hardware thats start of the art now, almost obsolete when vista is released. I can post about "i remember the day when programmers would squeeze every last drop of performance out of a pc" whereas these days its easier to get it working to an textent and then let more powerfull hardware be released and get it going to its full extent like doom 3. So all these graphics and processing power will be needed just for vista i assume, what does that leave for running the actual stuff such as gaming and the apps on it? What does the Total cost of upgrading realistically get me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Haze Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I'll be due for a system upgrade then as well (upped from a 2.53Ghx P4 to my current A64 3500+ last October), but still.....aren't they tipping the overkill meter here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 sweet. i was going to get a new monitor and another gig of ram anyways. i guarantee vista will work on low-end systems tho, it just has to ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amrinders87 Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Thanks for posting that. Sounds good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BajiRav Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 There is hardly anything "amazing" in that piece. Anybody remotely regular on Neowin should know all that. Not to mention the usual BS about "requirements", those are the top level scenarios and not necessarily minimum required configs ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt74441 Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Are they insane? PC Manufacturers will not be happy about this. What about laptops? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autodefe Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Hmm... In a year from now I'll definitely be upgrading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highsea Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 i wouldn't be too surprised if you see a turn in tables here as far as who currently leans towards OSX and who leans toward Windows. Vista is looking much more stringent as far as hardware restrictions and what you'll need to run it at full effect, an HDCP, SATA, 256mb of vid? I think you may start to see a lot of people jumping **** to the OSX-86 route and working on a patched up version for their next os. Atleast the people who'd like a fully functional os with less restrictions. cause I garuntee it'll be a lot easier to get around macs hardware security features than it will be get around windows.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr0z Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Windoze Vista won't run 0n my P3n7ium III - :cry: Windoze Vista won't w0rk w377 0n my 128Mb AGP V1d30 CarD - Oh N0e5!!! Really, Vista is the new hotness designed for new hardware hotness not a 4 year old pc that runs windows xp "sweet". :rolleyes: I don't think the system specs for Vista are too high at all. Sure I'll need a new video card to run it well but, that's why we're PC users not Mac users, we love tweaking and upgrading. Yes. Yes we do :shifty: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwIzTiD_Juggalo Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 those specs are unbelievable to run just the OS. 2gb of ram to "optimally" run vista and nothing else cmon'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichi Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I's an OS or a next-gen game? :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majorbabu Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 this is serious garbage. microsoft should get a reality check and realize that they're building an os and not an earth simulator. even though 2gb worth of sticks are fairly inexpensive these days, but that's not a good enough reason to force me into an upgrade. they better have an option to turn off that crapload of bloat that vista will most likely ship with, otherwise i'm sticking with my xp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr0z Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 this is serious garbage. microsoft should get a reality check and realize that they're building an os and not an earth simulator. even though 2gb worth of sticks are fairly inexpensive these days, but that's not a good enough reason to force me into an upgrade.they better have an option to turn off that crapload of bloat that vista will most likely ship with, otherwise i'm sticking with my xp 586493809[/snapback] 2gb of ram is optimal for a x64 setup. 1gb is the sweet spot for 32bits. Microsoft aren't forcing you to upgrade majorbabu, you can still run the "old" windows xp interface without upgrading. Unless you're using onboard graphics and then your fsk'd. LOL at last paragraph. :rolleyes: Microsoft have listened to customers wanting a computing experience as good or better than Mac OS X. :yes: Just stay with Windows XP until you are ready to move to Vista. :trout: to me. What am I saying?! :wacko: Vista won't even be available until November 2006. :pinch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkaterAustin Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I dont know, but to me really 2g of ram seems like a lot but really isn't! My friend just got quality set of memory for 179 bux for a 2g kit (kingston pc3200) I think as time goes by 1g will be the equiv of 512 now days (being 512 is the minimum)... Though i still think its redicolous that windows needs even 512 to run, but i guess as things keep moving on its how things will go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nexus Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Thats actually some stringent standards. It's at least 4 times more than XP requires. I personally would have to do some serious upgrading. So I guess Vista is out of the question for me as a user, I guess good old faithful XP is where I'm staying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Post-It Note Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Really, those specs are more likely required only if you want an optimal performance when you turn everything on. Microsoft would never do something as stupid as forcing everyone who has a 2-year old pc to buy a new one, because they would be losing out on a LOT of sales of Vista. More likely than not, you can run Aero smoothly on the current cards, and no noticible slowdowns as long as you turn off some non-essential things (remember how everyone turns off the indexing service, similar idea). To believe those specs is to believe that Vista will be using 30% of the CPU all the time, and accessing the disk as much as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolslacker Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I would not be surprised if the requirements are lower than these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha2004 Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I's an OS or a next-gen game? :huh: 586493763[/snapback] Its a next gen game with a built in os ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danrarbc Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Indeed I think it means were all going to be playing our games on medium unless you have a "HDCP" monitor due to the rendering nonsense. :cry: 586492661[/snapback] It has nothing to do with anything other than movies. Games will still run at any res. The desktop will still run at any res. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavo Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I don't know where that crap came from and why you're posting it in here. The minimum requirements for Vista will be the same as XP. I wouldn't be surprised if Vista runs better on lower hardware. I don't know if this guy is trolling or what, but I can't believe how many people are falling for that garbage the OP spilled in here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicane-UK Veteran Posted September 8, 2005 Veteran Share Posted September 8, 2005 Insane spec requirements. I'll stick with XP for now I guess :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phoenix Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 last nail in the coffin for me,just finshed a build and its below those specs.ill be upgrading again in 2007 i think. plus i think ill wait until the whole DRM Monitor stuff gets abit clearer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notuptome2004 Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I don't know where that crap came from and why you're posting it in here. The minimum requirements for Vista will be the same as XP. I wouldn't be surprised if Vista runs better on lower hardware. I don't know if this guy is trolling or what, but I can't believe how many people are falling for that garbage the OP spilled in here. 586494203[/snapback] XP minimal needs 233mhz and 64megs to run i dont think Vista will run on that ok Y well many facotrs of the non video card stuff but liek search and otehr functions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megamanXplosion Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 These are not requirements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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