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Someone persuade me to not install this tomorrow. I have just ordered 1tb in hard drives to go with my other 1tb, WD 500aaks, and another 2 gig of Geil DDR2 LL 6400 Ultra ram. Been wanting to run x64 for a while now and I hear its become quite well behaved.

I like my RPG's, and racing games (got a G25 for this) but my pc is mainly an HTPC now and work computer so I'm willing to put up with some issues and surely stuff will be all going 64 bit sometime soon, right?

My specs are relevant i guess,

C2Duo 6600 @ 3.4ghz
Gigabyte DS3R
4 GB Geil ram (as above)
2tb of raid arrays
Audigy 2 ZS
Hiper 580 (works ok for me)
x1900XTX

Anything there that will be an obvious concern? I appreciate there are a few threads going around about this but as I dont mind putting up with a bit of buggering about I'd like to know peoples opinion. Also, my clock speed, will having 4 sticks at 1gb each affect the amount of FSB I can hurl at it?
 
i have 64 vista home prem as of yestuday. its working fine. but the biggest problem so far is drivers. although its not hard to find them on the net.

the other thing ive found is some old games dont work with the newer direct X versions.

id say go for it. but what im going to do is put a second smaller drive for XP for those games / programs.
 
I had some problems with overclocking tools not running. Vista likes signed drivers - PITA. But I have got round these bugs.
 
JoeCooper said:
although, vista alone takes up 1GB of ram, i recormend at least 2GB, im upgrading to 4 next month
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Codswallop it does. Mine is currently sat here with 600MB in use. Furthermore Vista utilises its RAM in a completely different manner to XP, to such an extent that even if your RAM appears completely used up, should an app request it, vista will happily give it up at will (ok its more complex than that, but I suggest you read up on vista memory management before slating that "it uses a gig").

I've recently moved from Vista Ultimate x32 to Vista Ultimate x64, and the main issues I have are either due to:

1) unsigned drivers needing to be used -> see ATITool, ATI Tray Tools, Rivatuner etc

2) apps that just simply refuse to run -> Intel TAT, Trackmania series games, Farcry with ANY patch on it (strangely vanilla 1.0 works fine :confused: )

3) niggling OS issues, such as IE7 x64 being the default version of IE, even though the 64-bit version has issues with more complex sites (for example flash only recently has been made to work).

However, things are being improved all the time, I have found no reason as of yet to dual-boot with XP or even x32 Vista.
 
I read the raid drivers are just a case of whacking them on a USB pen drive? Id have thought you could use a floppy too but USB seems infinitely preferable (so I dont have to pull all of my pc stuff out of the cupboard in bedroom to find a drive).
 
You can read them straight off the CD they came on, off a HDD, off a USB drive, or off a floppy. As of yet however I've not come across a RAID device that setup cannot install to without prompting for drivers, even my Abit IP35-PRO which I'd have thought too new to have drivers included as standard on a vista DVD.
 
paradigm said:
You can read them straight off the CD they came on, off a HDD, off a USB drive, or off a floppy. As of yet however I've not come across a RAID device that setup cannot install to without prompting for drivers, even my Abit IP35-PRO which I'd have thought too new to have drivers included as standard on a vista DVD.
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Excellent, thanks. I got the new DS3 drivers and just put them on a fat32 formatted pen drive. I have ran raid 0 in XP before, the process sounds straightforward?
 
Well for me, I booted into the RAID configuration utility on the motherboard itself, created, configured and initialized my array (4x80GB RAID-5 SATA-II Drives), and proceeded to boot from the vista DVD. When it got to the stage about asking for drives, low and behold the single RAID-5 volume appeared in the list of availabilities :cool:

Far FAR easier than XP.
 
Well it all went swimmingly, all seems well apart from Armed Assault which just plain refuses to run at all well. FUBAR graphics, but guild wars runs much better for some reason than in XP, much faster.

Anyways bar that no other problems so thanks for your help. I have a few raided (0) 500 gig drives and they positively fly now.
 
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