Upgrading To Vista 64bit

[Biker_GA]

Originally Posted by jetgaming

No games are compatible with Windows 7, all i do is gaming..

Strange... WoW and LOTRO are running just fine on my 64-bit version of Win 7 RC.

So far, I'm impressed with the release. This is what Vista SHOULD have been.

[lasto]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

In Windows 7, your experience score is going to be limited by the lowest scoring device. In your case its most likely your video card unless your hard drive is dog slow. You would increase that score by dropping a 8800 or 9800 card in there without too much expense.

My graphics card is an 8600 GT and it nets me a 5.3 on the experience scale. I don't think anyone really uses the scale at this time. At least not like Microsoft intended it to be used.

aint my hard drive as thats a new one as well - only thing not new this time is the GFX card.
Hard drive is a : Western Digital 2TB Hard Drive SATA300 7200rpm 32MB Cache

You seen prices of new gfx card - seen a 1 gig GFX card that was 300 odd quid.
I could buy an XBOX and proberly PS3 for that price these days.

[Wayne Luke]

Yeah.. That is why I mentioned the 9800 and not the GTS 200 or the GTX 200.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814143150

[Biker_GA]

Newegg. Crack for geeks.

Expecting two items today via UPS from those folks... LOL

[lasto]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

Yeah.. That is why I mentioned the 9800 and not the GTS 200 or the GTX 200.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814143150

i just purchased this one - hope its better than the one i currently have :

Gigabyte 9600GT 1GB GDDR3 DVI VGA HDMI Out PhysX and Cuda ready PCI-E Graphics Card - Qty: 1

But it never cost me $69 - total price in was 124 UK pounds inc VAT
Arrives in the morning (next day delivery)

[dstruct2k]

Originally Posted by lasto

My stats are as follows :

AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad Core Processor 2.60 GHZ
Memory *4 gig
64 Bit OS
My GFX card is PCI-e (NVIDIA Geforce 8500 GT

I have that exact same system, but with a GeForce 9800 GTX.

The 8500 was designed as a budget-line card, not for gaming or high performance applications. Your new 9600 should serve you well I'm loving my 9800.

(BTW - My CPU is a Phenom 9950, but I get 2.91 GHz out of it Just letting you know, these chips can be pushed to amazing heights.)

[lasto]

Originally Posted by dstruct2k

I have that exact same system, but with a GeForce 9800 GTX.

The 8500 was designed as a budget-line card, not for gaming or high performance applications. Your new 9600 should serve you well I'm loving my 9800.

(BTW - My CPU is a Phenom 9950, but I get 2.91 GHz out of it Just letting you know, these chips can be pushed to amazing heights.)

how u push it further m8 - Ive not messed in the bois but i throught if u pushed the chip u had to alter the memory as well - or am i wrong ?

[dstruct2k]

The memory and the CPU are on shared clocks; so yes, but while increasing the CPU frequency causes the memory to clock higher, increasing the multiplier does not. And the 9950 has an unlocked multiplier with a failsafe-fallback of 13.5 if it overheats (even during boot!)

Back on topic: Vista gave 64-bit OS's a bad name, but Win7 x64 has ran everything (including Doom and Doom 2 - the old Win95 versions!) I've thrown at it. Vista was inherently unstable, and Windows 7 will change the way people think of new versions of Windows.

It's like the 98-ME-XP path... If only M$ had skipped that half-assed attempt in the middle...

[devilsown]

Worst thing i ever did with my computer was get vista 64 bit . I should have goten 32 bit.

[R1lover]

Originally Posted by devilsown

Worst thing i ever did with my computer was get vista 64 bit . I should have goten 32 bit.

Then it's either not setup correctly or you have a very old pc, 64 bit is the shiat and the future as well...... much more robust then 32bit.... you realize more is better right? win 3.1 was 16 bit.