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I absolutely despised Vista when it came out. It was a pig and it seemed nothing short of a Flux Capacitor and a nuclear power plant could help it out. Talked to some people and they all agreed that after SP1 came out, it really smoothed things out.
Since I built a new PC, figured I would make it a dual OS system and give it a try. Installed Ultimate 64 bit. Startup is just a tad slow....not too bad. The interface is still very similar. Just looks a little different. I tried 32 bit first, and it was pretty nice. 64 bit seems to be a little more RAM hungry though.
Where it really gets a kick in the pants is graphics. With both video cards in SLI and utilizing DX10 to the fullest, this thing smokes graphically. Runs Crysis at full tilt with no issues. And I am only using 2 Nvidia GT9500's ( 512MB DDR3, PCI 2.0 ). No overclocking. I got 2 GB of DDR2 dual channel. I may jump to 4 GB.....could go to 8, but, its useless.....I will never use it. I bought the DDR2 board, because at that time, high end DDR3 was fuggin expensive. Now it has come down into the atmosphere, may need to order a board with DDR3 and the AMD Phenom chips are coming down in price.
Speaking of AMD, I know the Intels benchmark better, but, these are pretty nice CPU's. I just dont think that 99% of the people would be able to see or notice the performance difference. Kind of like one guy bragging his car does 200MPH and the other guy bragging his can do 202MPH.
I dunno, anyone else have any thoughts, input, etc?-Lou
I absolutely despised Vista when it came out. It was a pig and it seemed nothing short of a Flux Capacitor and a nuclear power plant could help it out. Talked to some people and they all agreed that after SP1 came out, it really smoothed things out.
Since I built a new PC, figured I would make it a dual OS system and give it a try. Installed Ultimate 64 bit. Startup is just a tad slow....not too bad. The interface is still very similar. Just looks a little different. I tried 32 bit first, and it was pretty nice. 64 bit seems to be a little more RAM hungry though.
Where it really gets a kick in the pants is graphics. With both video cards in SLI and utilizing DX10 to the fullest, this thing smokes graphically. Runs Crysis at full tilt with no issues. And I am only using 2 Nvidia GT9500's ( 512MB DDR3, PCI 2.0 ). No overclocking. I got 2 GB of DDR2 dual channel. I may jump to 4 GB.....could go to 8, but, its useless.....I will never use it. I bought the DDR2 board, because at that time, high end DDR3 was fuggin expensive. Now it has come down into the atmosphere, may need to order a board with DDR3 and the AMD Phenom chips are coming down in price.
Speaking of AMD, I know the Intels benchmark better, but, these are pretty nice CPU's. I just dont think that 99% of the people would be able to see or notice the performance difference. Kind of like one guy bragging his car does 200MPH and the other guy bragging his can do 202MPH.
I dunno, anyone else have any thoughts, input, etc?-Lou
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