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Yeah im pretty sure everything should be fine including HDD for the upgrade.

Only thing im a lil pahsed about is my processor (4000+ mentioned above - would prefer dual core) my RAM (another 2GB would be ideal) and Vid card (even though its a 7900GT 512MB i would like a Nvidia "8" series - DX10 please).

In saying that im sure i should be fine in the mean time.

Ive run the Vista Upgrade advisor and the only things that are not supported on my Comp is Nero and i THINK my on board sound card, not sure what im gonna do about that :S

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I just upgraded to a AMD duelcore 4600+, but broke the hd cause im a retarted f**k and it wont even get past the mobo startup thing... but im in my last stages of yr12 and wont fix it till im finished (distracts me too much)

then i will deffo get vista, make use of my duelcore.

OR

Fix the comp now and get vista, then i will have no compatible programs to use, so no distraction!

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Spend a bit of money on a better CPU cooler and overclock the crap out of your CPU. You can get up to a 20-30% performance increase. For the cost of a $60 heat sink :ninja:

Then go and spend $10000's on your car :)

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Windows 98 > Windows ME

Windows XP > Windows Vista

Thats the last time Microshit tried to make an OS look pretty... and it turned out shitty instead.

Took them over 24months to finally pull there finger out and release service pack 2, for XP which still wasn't perfect or even close to.

So I think I'll bar off Vista for now... seems like a resource hungry money spinner for Microshit.

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I tried it for a little bit.. now I'm back on a small XP partition and Ubuntu on the rest.. I didn't like the speed.

You can always run Beryl on X.. it even gives more 3D eye-candy than vista, with half the system requirements.

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Whats that got to do with Vista or am i missing something here?

its supposedly better and faster just like vista. i assume people are changing to vist because its better? not because its just new. i ask this on the chance that people on this thread who are deciding to change to vista are currently using xp 64 or have tried it and wanted some feedback on it. hope thats enough reason for me to post.

thanks.

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Vista needs pixel shaders 2.0 not 3.0 to run aero. So far from what I have heard and seen is that it is fairly unstable and can randomly crash. Also from talking to other distributors, it has a lot of compatibility issues with current games and other programs. It does seem to be more optimized for the core 2 CPU’s. Myself and most other onsite tech's in Perth seem to all agree on waiting for at leas SP1 before jumping to vista

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Hi all ive had vista on for about a month now, once you can track down all your drivers and get everything working its pretty good.

I only have an old P4 3.0, 1.5 gig ram, X800 pro, and it runs fine, only thing I hate so far is the directInput thing which wont let me change the controls in juiced!, but all other games work fine.

I really love how media centre is built in and the way it looks. but i'm sure to need a new pc to run the new games coming out soon!

My 2 cents

Cheers :wave:

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I ran RC1 for a few months, needs lots of Ram and atleast a 256 mb pci video card, was reasonably happy with it ! I will be running a dual boot for atleast 12 months to give the software a chance to catch up, couldn't run a emulator or nero but i have heard nero offer a patch on there site now!

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I really wouldn't get Vista at this point. I've been using Vista at uni and reading a review here and there. If you have a new system with no OS on it, that would pretty much be the only reason to get vista. It was designed to never need a service pack. Funnily enough there's already SP1 out for Vista. It isn't extremely buggy, but it has a fair few bugs on it currently. I would wait until the initial speed hump is over with and enough time is put into Vista before buying it. Good indication would be when the price goes down :happy:

Oh and yes, it does look pretty. Makes XP look a little bland. Though it does look a whole lot like the latest Mac OSX.

Got to say one feature I love about vista, is that you have so many little widgets and tweaks for it.

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