Advice for Vista Home media PC

Hi

1st post so hello

i have just been gifted a vista ultimate key and have installed it on my PC

This is an
Athlon 64 3700+ single core running @2.8ghz
2GB DDR Ram
an Asus Nforce 4 board using onboard 5.1 sound
and an xxx 256mb Geforce 7800GTX.

I am testing out my rig for using my Xbox HDDVD drive with PowerDVD ultra, as with all the xbox issues i have decided its a bit "delicate" to waste on watching movies on it.

However, whilst my pc CAN run HDDVD it is right on the edge and drops frames now and then.

Does anyone know if powerDVD has and 64bit support and if so, will it improve my performance at all, or if not is there any software for vista / vista64 which WILL improve performance?

at a guess i only need a 10% performance gain and it will be bang on the money.

many thanks

Mike.

PS i know i could buy the Vista64 upgrade disk and try it out, however its a lot of hassle and some expense for something which may ultimately do stuff all.

Mike, Welcome to the Vista Forums

For me I can't speak to any performance increase in a 64 Bit program, except for your memory. It looks like you have 2GB. If you increase this to say 8GB, I'd say you'll get a performance increase across the board. Maybe my 64 bit cousins may have some input on this.

Hi

thanks for your reply

am sure 8gb would improve things, however IF i was to go down the upgrade route, i would probably just stick in a dualcore X2 64 4000 which i know will do the job even with 2gb on vista 32bit, however, i am trying to do it on a budget with the hardware i have already.

I guess the other option (probably not popular on a vista board) would be to go back to XP. Bit of a pain tho installing all the drivers etc.