Vista - New Rig - Vista 64-bit or XP?

Hi guys,

Thought Id tap into your masses of knowledge. I'm about to order a new rig costing bout £1500 and I just want to know whether or not I should be getting Vista 64 or stick with XP.

I'll mainly be using it for Gaming and so I want to get the most out of it.

Specs include Q6600 Quad, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD and 8800GTX Nvidia.

Look forward to your replies.

chimhog <chimhog.2vrsj7@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in
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> Hi guys,
>
> Thought Id tap into your masses of knowledge. I'm about to order
> a new rig costing bout £1500 and I just want to know whether or
> not I should be getting Vista 64 or stick with XP.
>
> I'll mainly be using it for Gaming and so I want to get the most
> out of it.
>
> Specs include Q6600 Quad, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD and 8800GTX Nvidia.
>
> Look forward to your replies.
>
>

At this point in time stay with XP if gaming is your main activity.

You'll always be able to install Vista in a year or so when more made
for Vista games are out.

--
The most reliable time to upgrade to a new Operating System is at the
end of its life cycle.

Dave

If you want to use more then 3GB of RAM then you will have to go to 64 bit vista. You would also need vista to do any kind of directX10 gaming. however, if u want the most out of your performance then stick with xp pro 32 bit. the other gig of ram will find a use, but not anything you will be able to notice ( your bios or something) . take it from me - 64 bit vista is very buggy. vista alone even 32 bit is buggy. gaming has been difficult at first for me but i have spent enough time web surfing, talking with tech agents, and download patches to get things to work properly. its up to u man, and i went through the same dilemma before I got this laptop last week. so write down pros and cons and look at it, and you will figure out whats best for you.

Vista x64 is the way to go. I've been using it for 8 months now, and have had zero issues with games. Even those that I expected to give problems worked first time. And performance rocks!

These are my specs:

ASUS A8N32-SLI-Deluxe Motherboard
4GB DDR400 Memory
AMD64 Dual-Core 4800
ASUS nVidia 6200 Graphics
1.2TB Hard Disk storage
Vista x64 Ultimate

Thanks for your quick replies. I have got XP at home already. Could I order my rig with Vista 64-bit and then dual boot it.

I just wanna get it right as its my last big buy b4 i get married

I am tempted by 64-bit as it seems to be the future.

This is NOT accurate. Vista is solid IF you make sure your hardware has proper driver support. The machine you listed will LOVE Vista64 and be rock solid.

I would personally however dump the 8800GTX and get a 2900XT. Nvidia drivers with Vista are a bit problematic while ATI has been pretty solid in Vista from the start.

Truth be told, when I went to Vista I threw caution to the wind and decided on x64 Ultimate.

Everyone, including the supplier warned be against 64 bit, but I did it anyway. I installed it into a dual-boot configuration, but found that it wasn't necessary. A couple of weeks later, I realized that I haven't booted into XP for a while, so I made a full backup of all my important data and then simply wiped out everything and reloaded Vista

Now I'm running on a 100% pure Windows Vista x64 Ultimate PC, and I haven't looked back.

64 Bit is the definitive future of computing for the next couple of years. I'm going to tell you what I tell everyone else: If your PC is 64-Bit capable, then there is no reason at all to not use Vista x64. If you insist on using cutting edge hardware, why skimp on the operating system?

I remember the same argument all those years ago when we moved from 16-Bit Windows 3.1 to 32-Bit Windows 95. And my prediction is that we'll all have the same reservations when one day moving from 64-Bit to 128-Bit and beyond!

"dzomlija" <dzomlija.2vs0v6@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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>
> Truth be told, when I went to Vista I threw caution to the wind and
> decided on x64 Ultimate.
>
> -*Everyone*-, including the supplier warned be against 64 bit, but I
> did it anyway. I installed it into a dual-boot configuration, but found
> that it wasn't necessary. A couple of weeks later, I realized that I
> haven't booted into XP for a while, so I made a full backup of all my
> important data and then simply wiped out everything and reloaded Vista
>
> Now I'm running on a 100% pure Windows Vista x64 Ultimate PC, and I
> haven't looked back.
>
> 64 Bit is the definitive future of computing for the next couple of
> years. I'm going to tell you what I tell everyone else: -If your PC is
> 64-Bit capable, then there is no reason at all to not use Vista x64. If
> you insist on using cutting edge hardware, why skimp on the operating
> system?-
>
> I remember the same argument all those years ago when we moved from
> 16-Bit Windows 3.1 to 32-Bit Windows 95. And my prediction is that we'll
> all have the same reservations when one day moving from 64-Bit to
> 128-Bit and beyond!

I haven't made the 64-bit plunge, but if you're already blowing mad wads of
cash on your system, why throw in an OS that's not gonna have the potential
to take full advantage of it?

The driver situation for 64-bit has NEVER been that bad, and you can turn
off digital signing so there's really no excuse it seems now a days.

Good luck.

I was feeling pretty adventurous when I built my Q6600 system, so I went ahead and got the 64 bit Vista Premium. I gotta say, for it's quirks and over-compensation for dummy users... it's great.

Core2Quad Q6600
4GB of RAM
Radeon HD 2400PRO
nVidia 650i chipset mobo

These are the games I've played on it with no issue:

World of Warcraft
City of Heroes
ST: Armada 2
ST: Bridge Commander

I'm waiting for my nVidia 7900GT to come back from RMA. I have the 2400Pro in there for HD video output to the TV.

My main system is an E6600 with a Geforce 8800GTS running XP Pro. I haven't migrated to the Q because I hate hate hate migrating to new puters *sigh* Reinstalling apps and getting everything all nice and in order is quite a pain.

> Thought Id tap into your masses of knowledge. I'm about to order a new
> rig costing bout £1500 and I just want to know whether or not I should
> be getting Vista 64 or stick with XP.

If you have £1500 spare I'd suggest you dual boot. I have XP and Vista-64.
Bioshock works on both.