XP verus VISTA for a hardcore gaming PC

monster_munch · 20 Oct 2008 at 23:03

Just bought an 8600, 4780x2, 4gig Dominator and the likes!

Am wondering which OP will give me better fps over the next year?

Strife212 · 20 Oct 2008 at 23:04

Vista 64 bit otherwise you will have 2GB of RAM.

Pilky01 · 20 Oct 2008 at 23:05

Vista x64

benjo · 20 Oct 2008 at 23:05

Vista 64.

int · 20 Oct 2008 at 23:08

Strife212 said:
Vista 64 bit otherwise you will have 2GB of RAM.

3-3.5Gb isn't it?

Rroff · 20 Oct 2008 at 23:09

4870X2 has 2gigs of VRAM total (2x1024) which would be taken from your total RAM... infact you'd prolly only see around 1.85gig available RAM with a 32Bit OS.

Strife212 · 20 Oct 2008 at 23:09

It depends what else you have in the system, he's going to have 2GB of graphics RAM eating away at the cap.

Pilky01 · 20 Oct 2008 at 23:10

int said:
3-3.5Gb isn't it?

With 2gb of gfx memory he will be left with very little.

Strife212 · 20 Oct 2008 at 23:20

Beaten

Brian Stuart · 21 Oct 2008 at 09:27

Vista 64

rjk · 21 Oct 2008 at 09:35

anything less than vista 64 and you may as well not have bothered with half your ram

EsaT · 21 Oct 2008 at 10:00

Rroff said:
4870X2 has 2gigs of VRAM total (2x1024) which would be taken from your total RAM...

Amount of memory in Crossfire is that of one card, not sum!

Brian Stuart · 21 Oct 2008 at 10:03

EsaT said:
Amount of memory in Crossfire is that of one card, not sum!

He will still be left with less than 3GB though.

leekemp · 21 Oct 2008 at 10:33

Vista 64

Greebo · 21 Oct 2008 at 10:57

Brian Stuart said:
He will still be left with less than 3GB though.

But enough. I have a dual boot system (best of both worlds) and I find that the xp system with 3Gb is faster than the vista system with 4gb.

Maybe different if you have 8Gb.

ANyway,I did the dual boot since I have hardware/software which is still not supported in Vista.

Brian Stuart · 21 Oct 2008 at 11:02

TBH 64bit is the only way to go if all your hardware/software is supported.

Aod · 21 Oct 2008 at 11:05

XP-x64! \o/

XP x64 is basically windows server 2003, in the shiny XP wrapper, giving it SUPERB reliability. i think the only time my install of XP x64 has bluescreened, it was due to dodgy nVidia drivers.

All modern hardware supports XP x64, as far as i'm aware.

Fire Wizard · 21 Oct 2008 at 11:09

If you are using an ATI Radeon 4870 X2 then in all honesty, you will want to be using a 64-bit operating system otherwise if you are only using a 32-bit operating system, the system will only address around 2.4GB of RAM, give or take.

Greebo · 21 Oct 2008 at 11:13

Aod said:
XP-x64! \o/

All modern hardware supports XP x64, as far as i'm aware.

Yeah all "modern hardware" maybe. As in the last 6-12 months. Not so good for me with hardware I have kept from my old build.

Software is the worst and I object having to pay £100's to upgrade all my software to vista 64 compatible stuff hence the dual boot.

But I agree, if your hardware and software supports it, go Vista 64

danielanthony · 21 Oct 2008 at 11:21

Aod said:
XP-x64! \o/

XP x64 is basically windows server 2003, in the shiny XP wrapper, giving it SUPERB reliability. i think the only time my install of XP x64 has bluescreened, it was due to dodgy nVidia drivers.

All modern hardware supports XP x64, as far as i'm aware.

Vista x64 is Windows 2008 server, which is more reliable and flexible than Windows 2003 server.

For those who are about to flame me, how many "Windows 2008 is crap" type reports have you seen? Probably the best received M$ OS to date.