New Rig-Vista?

GrumPy

Hey, getting a new rig together, nothing fancy, but was wondering if you guys think it will run vista ok? most of the stuff I have, the rest arriving within the next 2 weeks.



Processor: AMD 64 Athlon 3500+ So939
Ram: Crucial DDR 400Mhz (PC3200) 512MB x 2 = 1GB
Mobo: EpoX 9NPA+ ultra - nforce 4 mobo
Graphics: XFX pci-e 6800GT GDDR3 256MB

PogMoThoin

it should. Vista gonna be a hog (requires 1gb min). I'm gonna hold off as long as i can to upgrade to it (mightn't bother at all)

Carragherisgod

Yeah that will run Vista but as PogMoThoin said, Vista is a monster. I have the beta running on 2 gig and a 3800 X2. Vista uses nearly half my ram just sitting there :rolleyes:

Have you considered running Windows XP x64? I use this as my main OS and I think it rocks

Hope this helps

Dave

youcancallmeal

Would using Vista make much difference with DDR2 ram?

PogMoThoin

No. its a pig on ram no matter what frequency u using. its huge. thats why dell and shops sell pcs with 1gb now so people wont come back in jan and return cos it wont run Vista

Carragherisgod

youcancallme>al wrote:

Would using Vista make much difference with DDR2 ram?

Not really. Depends mainly on how much RAM you have installed. Vista will require a MINIMUM of 1gig when it's released to the public. DDR2 might make it feel a bit "nippier" but not by much if at all

Dave

8T8

Remember it's a beta.

You wont see the practical recommendations for RAM till those final builds near the RTM build of Vista.

That said 1GB is starting to become more common place anyway even on WinXP machines due to it coming down in price, so if your a power user go for 2GB but it should be perfectly fine with 1GB assuming your going for all the eye candy turned on with Aero enabled and such.

As for Aero you need at minimum a DX9 SM2.0 capable card (yours is 3.0 so your covered) and 256MB of RAM for no limitations on resolution with Aero enabled (which your also covered with by your 6800GT).

GrumPy

Thanks, I am sure by the time vista ships I will have stuck in another GB of RAM, and overclock the processor

Carragherisgod

8T8 wrote:

Remember it's a beta.

You wont see the practical recommendations for RAM till those final builds near the RTM build of Vista.

Fair pont 8T8

Creamy Goodness

i'm holding off a upgrade until i see the final build of vista running on a top spec machine of the same time.

CuLT

1GB for an OPERATING SYSTEM is flippin' ridiculous tbh.

That said, my lappie has it's "Windows Vista Capable" sticker on it ¬_¬

PogMoThoin

CuLT wrote:

1GB for an OPERATING SYSTEM is flippin' ridiculous tbh.

That said, my lappie has it's "Windows Vista Capable" sticker on it ¬_¬

:rolleyes: Marketing ploy. Will it realy be able for it?

ie. go faster stripes.....lol

TomCo

PogMoThoin wrote:

:rolleyes: Marketing ploy. Will it realy be able for it?

I can tell he's going to take that badly.

DemonOfTheFall

I say put in a single 1GB stick of DDR now, add another 1GB stick when Vista is out. That way you end up with a total of 2 sticks and don't end up with any issue's due to the A64's memory controller being absolute crap with more than 2 sticks.

CuLT

Heh, I'm sure it can handle it.

Honestly, at the moment, Vista itself looks like XP with go faster stripes.

PogMoThoin

CuLT wrote:

Heh, I'm sure it can handle it.

Honestly, at the moment, Vista itself looks like XP with go faster stripes.

Ya, well said. Ridiculous for an os to be so hungry. I'm v happy with Xp and prob gonna stick with it till i have no option but to change.

SeanW

I'd reccommend bumping the RAM up to 2 GB.

Carragherisgod

DemonOfTheFall wrote:

I say put in a single 1GB stick of DDR now, add another 1GB stick when Vista is out. That way you end up with a total of 2 sticks and don't end up with any issue's due to the A64's memory controller being absolute crap with more than 2 sticks.

lol. I have 3 PCs running and all four DIMM slots are full on all of them. One of the PCs is running 4 gig (4x 1gig dimms) and the other two have 2 gig each (4x 512 meg dimms) and they all work fine.
I have however heard of people having problems with 4 gig of RAM running a 32bit OS.

Just my 2 cents

jesus_thats_gre

No point going for an A64 until the new range on Intel chips are released. Once they come out, the A64 chips will be dog cheap and likely beated on performance by a large margin. If you are buying with Vista in mind I would also suggest a dual core processor.