New PC which OS??

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Getting a new PC for both gaming and media stuff..

Its a Rock Laptop
T2700 CPU
2Gig RAM
100 Gig HDD
+ 150 Gig Ex HDD
Geforce 7950 GTX 512mb

Now i was originally planning to get Vista Home Premium.. However i have heard and read a lot of reports that vista is showing bad performance in DX9 games. Which is a high priority as it will never have a DX10 graphics card..

Should i then get Windows MCE 2005 ? As ill want to stream a lot of media to my x360 and i know MCE has some great functions for this.. Or will vista be better and eventually outperform MCe in dx9 mode?

Im kind of planning for future use.
 
I would definitely put MCE on it without hesitation. Until drivers mature for Vista it will continue to run games like crap. Some of my XP games don't even run on Vista (KOTOR).
 
For at least the next 6 months Vista drivers will underperform. I'd suggest going XP, you can always buy a Vista licence later on.

Burnsy
 
I bought Vista as soon as it came out. With hindsight I should have waited at least SP1 was incorporated. Preferably I should have waited 12-18 months and purchased OEM Vista with a new CPU, DX10 Card and motherboard.

As your never going to install a DX10 card into machine then definitely go with MCE2005. Prior to purchasing Vista I managed to get MCE2005 at a really good discounted price. I imagine there are still a few place's you could pick up a bargain.
 
Well i get a choice of Either Vista or MCE for free with the laptop..


So it looks like MCE is the one for me..
 
With an nvidia card I would stick to XP MCE as the drivers are mature and work.. Vista nvidia drivers where absolutely shocking when I was using them. On the other hand if it was an ATI card then I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Vista over XP
 
if your graphic card was ati and your choice was vista home premium 32bit or mce, i would say choose vista because it as mce built in. the drivers isn't that much of a problem now.. i got my vista dvd just before it came out and i didn't have any problems with vista or drivers..
 
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gareth170 said:
if your choice is vista home premium 32bit or mce, i think u should choose vista because it as mce built in.
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I don't think you have downgrade rights to MCE form Vista HP.

Burnsy
 
burnsy2023 said:
I don't think you have downgrade rights to MCE form Vista HP.

Burnsy
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what u mean? i was just saying vista HP has MCE built-in.. i wasn't saying downgrade MCE form Vista HP.. whats the point in that?
 
gareth170 said:
what u mean? i was just saying vista HP has MCE built-in.. i wasn't saying downgrade MCE form Vista HP.. whats the point in that?
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Ok, I misunderstood.

There is a useful point to downgrading i.e. if you have incompatible apps that need to be upgraded by the developers or you need graphics drivers with half decent performance ;)

Burnsy
 
burnsy2023 said:
Ok, I misunderstood.

There is a useful point to downgrading i.e. if you have incompatible apps that need to be upgraded by the developers or you need graphics drivers with half decent performance ;)

Burnsy
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yep.. but in vista you can set a app to run in compatiblily modes i.e windows 95, windows 98/ME, windows NT 4.0, windows 2000, windows xp (SP2), windows server 2003.... it works for most old apps..
 
gareth170 said:
yep.. but in vista you can set a app to run in compatiblily modes i.e windows 95, windows 98/ME, windows NT 4.0, windows 2000, windows xp (SP2), windows server 2003.... it works for most old apps..
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It doesn't always work and you stil l have the problem of driver performance. :)

Burnsy
 
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