With my Specs, XP or Vista?


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greetings fellow members,

below is my current system specs:

INTEL 9550 Core-2 Quad 2.83ghz

MSI P45 Diamond Mainboard

PC1333 1GB x2 PATRIOT DDR3

Gigabyte 1GB HD4870 PCI-E

LG SATA DVDRW

THERMAL Right Ultra 120 Extreme Heat Sink

Corsair HX 1000w PSU

CoolerMaster HAF932 Full Tower Casing

I like vista interface but i worry my 2gb ram isnt sufficient? or its fine? coz on my previous system i had 4gb of ddr2 rams.

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becoz i heard vista use alot of ram especially if im gona play games on it.. i worry the lag kicks in~ haha..

im currently running on XP pro lite edition~ its like 190mb uses only 60mb ram - 80 mb ram...

It does use some ram but 2 gb's will do just fine. Not to worry. I ran Vista Ultimate when I was Beta Testing it on 1gb of ram with no problems.

can my system run 64bit ? i dun think so right.. but anyway wad are the pros and cons of the 64bit edition?

thanks for advice guys :)

To: bryonhowley, could ya guide me how to get OSX on my intel :D i'm on WLM if u agree to it~

yes you can run 64bit OS since your cpu is based on core 2

the con i can think about ,

you can no longer run 16bit based programs .

you should have 64bit drivers for your hardwares .

other then that you would be fine .

pro ,

you aren't limited to 4GB max memory anymore , you can go all the way to 128GB* of ram with x64 :blink: in the future and off course that if your motherboard support it

* windows vista 64bit artifical limit , 64bit can support up to 16.25 exabytes :woot:

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my friends are telling me they 64bit drivers are unstable, but i might still try it.. is it faster if i run on a 64bit os?

No.

You can directly address > 4GB of RAM. But if you don't have 4GB+, I wouldn't see any benefit to x64 at this point.

my friends are telling me they 64bit drivers are unstable, but i might still try it.. is it faster if i run on a 64bit os?

64bit drivers currently are fine , but there are always room for improvement .

64bit being faster or not , it really depand upon what kind of tasks you do on your own pc

64bit OS does help for memory heavy applications

You don't require 4GB of RAM before running a 64-bit OS, just need a 64-bit CPU. I just don't think there is any real advantage unless you do - for addressing reasons for large memory configurations.

See how it works using Vista's swap. Mostly, when you have a large illustrator or Photoshop app open, much of your memory will not be changing all the time. That static memory can often be paged to the hard drive, so the memory bits you are working with are in RAM.

If you find the performance with 2GB unacceptable, then splurge for more RAM. (Y)

ah ok i get it now.. coz adobe photoshop with my illustrator open and wlm etc etc gona use up alot of resources... maybe i should get another 2gb ddr3 of the same brand and speeds?

that will help to get a nice boost in vista responsiveness

Don't worry so much about memory usage in Vista. People misread memory allocation by the OS.

Vista works by the principle "free memory is wasted memory". The memory handling features of Vista are quite complex.

Long story short: Does Vista need more memory: yes, but only because it's a newer OS. Just like XP ate more memory than 2000. Vista futher optimizes itself more if you have more RAM availible.

Vista runs crap on 512MB, runs well enough on 1GB, really flies with 2GB. Most games really need >1GB anyway to going for 2GB is a good choice are RAM is dirty cheap these days.

Anyone using a 4GB system is either a real poweruser (large file editting, virtualisation etc) or overcompensating for some other problem they have. People claiming Vista simply won't run on >2GB, are just talking out of their necks.

I run Vista on a 1.6Ghz subnotebook .. and it runs just fine. It ran smoothly with 1GB and it had no problems what so ever. I had 2GB stick laying around so I replaced it (as the clockspeed of the stock 1GB ram was poor) but it runs just as great vs 1GB.

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