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apoc24

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How long do you guys think it will take for Vista to get rid of the bugs. I dont think it has to be Perfect i just dont want to have to send it back. Here are my future computer specs, im waiting to get Vista or else i would just buy now.

CASE: LIAN LI PC-V2000

PROCESSOR: Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 Conroe 2.93GHz

MOBO: NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX

CPU COOLING: Scythe SCINF-1000

RAM:CORSAIR Dominator 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2

HD: 2X Seagate SV35 Series ST3500641SV 500GB

POWERSUPPLY: PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 1KW-SR EPS12V 1000W

SOUND CARD: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite 7.1

VIDEO CARD: 2X GeForce 8800GTX 768MB

MONITOR: 30" DELL (everything you want in a LCD)
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I might be wasting my money but i wont be upgrading until im out of college. :p
 
well no need to buy vista until its public release, hopefully by then the drivers from other companies will be out (like for your 8800's)
 
apoc24 said:
How long do you guys think it will take for Vista to get rid of the bugs.
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Never, it's Windows.

apoc24 said:
I might be wasting my money but i wont be upgrading until im out of college. :p
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Wouldn't it be far cheaper purchasing a copy using an academic discount?
 
Fantastic choice on the power supply the rest is... well... meh... :D I'm a huge supporter of PC Power & Cooling hardware, never had one component fail from them and I can't say that about any other product I have ever owned of any kind even non-computer and non-technical related stuff.

The case doesn't really relate to Vista, but you've chosen a nice one, I'll give you that.

2GB is ok for Vista, but if you're serious about it, max out the motherboard if possible, 4GB is a really sweet spot. If you plan to use this machine for the next 3-4 years, get the best you can get and the most you can get *now* while you're still piecing it together - that's my advice for RAM, go for the 4GB if at all possible. Vista will use it all properly.

And yeah, that Dell 30" is a sweet piece of hardware, but I'd take two 22" LCDs over one single 30" any day and twice on Sunday. One big one is fantastic, don't get me wrong; but even with a 30" you're going to have window overlap and still have stuff to work around - not to mention how often you're going to have to lift the mouse off the mouse pad or surface to reset it just to get from one side of that huge canvas onscreen to the other. That alone is a significant factor in why I'd never choose a single 30" over duals, or even triples. Multiple monitors are your friends... :)

My opinions, of course...

Vista works fine at the moment as it is, and it'll get better over time as manufacturers and software developers start creating products to use Vista's capabilities. Only time will tell where it all leads.
 
I'd say that 2GB is the sweet spot for Vista, not 4GB. Especially for the 32bit version but essentially on any desktop motherboard you won't get the full use of 4GB. 1GB is okay for Vista (I've tested configurations with less). That said, Vista *does* utilize memory much more than XP would and having more RAM doesn't plateau out much in improvements.
 
You're in college, so get it free. Check to see if your school is a member of MSDN AA.

My university is a member. :D
 
ChronoReverse said:
I'd say that 2GB is the sweet spot for Vista, not 4GB. Especially for the 32bit version but essentially on any desktop motherboard you won't get the full use of 4GB. 1GB is okay for Vista (I've tested configurations with less). That said, Vista *does* utilize memory much more than XP would and having more RAM doesn't plateau out much in improvements.
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Uhmmm... motherboards that support 4GB of RAM allow the OS full access to all of it. The "3GB issue" is a software limitation with any version of Windows based on 32 bit code. If you run one of the following versions of Windows:

XP Professional 64 Bit Edition
Windows Server 2003 64 Bit Edition

you don't have a "3GB issue;" your machine with 4GB (or more) gets full access to that 4GB of RAM from the first byte to the last.

It's 32 bit Windows that has RAM limitations, not 64 bit. The PAE stuff in 32 bit versions of Windows helps by allowing access to a bit more RAM (3GB rather than 2GB) but again, 64 bit versions of the operating system simply don't have these low limits.

So for Vista 64 bit, 2GB is fine (which is what I have currently) but 4GB truly is the "sweet spot" if you do some serious work with the computer. This laptop I have can handle 4G of RAM (2x2GB) but the price of 2GB SODIMMs presently is ridiculously high, like $500+ for each stick. That would mean putting 4GB of RAM in this machine would be more costly than the laptop itself was ($999)! :eek:
 
As with any operating system from Microsoft it'll keep being worked on and supported through patches until a certain date. If you're worried about bugs then wait until at least SP1 to install it. Not to thread crap or anything but this thread just seems like a showoff of specs or future specs =)
 
bbz_Ghost said:
Uhmmm... motherboards that support 4GB of RAM allow the OS full access to all of it. The "3GB issue" is a software limitation with any version of Windows based on 32 bit code. If you run one of the following versions of Windows*snip*
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In 32bit Windows XP, you can't access the full 4GB because some of it is reserved for the OS. You can change the boot settings such that instead of the 2gb/2gb split it's a 3gb/1gb split but that's it.


However, I was talking about a motherboard limitation where a portion of the 4GB is actually reserved by the bios. The bios isn't actually reserving the memory but reserving the address space. The manifestation of that is you don't have the full 4GB. I admit that this is hearsay however since I only have 2GB installed.
 
although i am proud of my specs :D , i really dont know much about ram thats my weak point.
 
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