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Vista public BETA released
ReggieMicheals:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---And bullshit will Vista run on that, infact XP would struggle to run on a machine that slow which says something as it's the year it was released.
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Actually, it runs as smooth as the Windows 2000 that came on it. Some issues occur when I put effects on full blast, but it gives out a decent performance. I stress decent.
piratePenguin:
125mb for that piece of crap! HOW IN THE NAME OF FUCK!?
ReggieMicheals:
Christ that's a waste of CPU power.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: ReggieMicheals ---Actually, it runs as smooth as the Windows 2000 that came on it. Some issues occur when I put effects on full blast, but it gives out a decent performance. I stress decent.
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Still: you'd think an OS would give very GOOD performace on a typical computer at the year of release...
Give me Ubuntu 6.06 on a typical 3 week old system. Ubuntu will not slow it down.
God I wanna download Vista and see how it runs on this rig with Aero disabled so I can look at the really important things, nameley how it copes (a) with no swap and (b) with loadsa swap being used. I've seen linux in both of these situations and it handled very well. (a) whenever I was messing about with the init system and forgot to enable the swap init script. Swap was disabled for nearly a month and I wouldn't have noticed except I tried to compile mozilla which led to an OOM (out of memory) error that would intelligently kill the compiling process (would windows do the same thing or would it bsod or what..?). And (b) right now, because I've been using over 300 mb of swap consistently for the last day thanks to helping rosetta@home and there isn't a huge performance difference. Programs start a little slower, that's it. Interestingly, ATM, 27% of my ram is cache.
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: Lead Head ---Saphire x1800GTO 256MB $189
Athlon 64 3500 $114
OCZ Gold Series 1GB DDR2 Kit $95
MSI K9N Neo-F AM2 Mobo $80
Antec TruePower 2.0 550Watt PSU $90
BenQ DVD Burner $35
Tex, I have no idea where you get your prices from....The rig above is more then enough to run vista, ontop of that it can play pretty much any game known to man at max quality. All for $603.
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Saphire ... never heard of it. Anyway, you forgot Vi$ta ($450) bringing it to $1053. Besides, I was going for reliability not cheapness ... got my prices from froogle, not the cheapest, but something more reliable. As in the hardware won't break soon after you buy it as has happened to me several times when buying cheap ... now I only buy things that are not as cheap, but more reliable.
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