I would say its hard to guage. It really depends on what you are talking about. If its games or productivity.
There is a performance decrease using Windows Vista, but if you meet certain specs that you do it should not even be an issue. This drop in performance is made up by what Windows Vista does opposed to Windows XP. It has several more effeciency things within it that seems like its pushing your system when in reality its not. What these do is increase the performance on your more frequently used programs. Also your video card is DX10.1 and optimized to run especially well with DX11 and DX10.1 games. With Windows XP you will be stuck on DX9.0c which utilizes ATI's HD3xxx line poorly.
I would say its hard to guage. It really depends on what you are talking about. If its games or productivity. There is a performance decrease using Windows Vista, but if you meet certain specs that you do it should not even be an issue. This drop in performance is made up by what Windows Vista does opposed to Windows XP. It has several more effeciency things within it that seems like its pushing your system when in reality its not. What these do is increase the performance on your more frequently used programs. Also your video card is DX10.1 and optimized to run especially well with DX11 and DX10.1 games. With Windows XP you will be stuck on DX9.0c which utilizes ATI's HD3xxx line poorly.
I don't mind staying in DX9, what really is bothering me about Vista is the constant errors and security issues, it's a bitch to handle...
"The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy?" - Albert Einstein
Vista has changed alot since service pack 2 and it no longer the crappy shell of its former release. I run both Vista x32 and Win 7x64 ( as a couple games dont work with win 7 as yet) and I have No problems whatsever with Vista. I would recommend going with Vista if the choices you have are Xp or Vista
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.1GHz
Memory: 3070MB RAM
Page File: 998MB used, 5378MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11 Card name: ATI Radeon HD 3600 Series
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Display Memory: 2297 MB
Dedicated Memory: 1019 MB
Shared Memory: 1278 MB
This do?
I don't think you are really going to see that much of a difference. I would stick with Vista.
"Those who dislike things based only on the fact that they are popular are just as shallow and superficial as those who only like them for the same reason."
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Please provide your computer specs, but if you have an older system, vista will just slow you down.
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.1GHz
Memory: 3070MB RAM
Page File: 998MB used, 5378MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Card name: ATI Radeon HD 3600 Series
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Display Memory: 2297 MB
Dedicated Memory: 1019 MB
Shared Memory: 1278 MB
This do?
"The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy?" - Albert Einstein
Ignore vista and go straight to win7, you will be happy you did. And yes you have above the recommended specs.
My Guild Wars 2 Vids
Can't get W7, just wanna know if XP will work better than vista?
"The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy?" - Albert Einstein
I would say its hard to guage. It really depends on what you are talking about. If its games or productivity.
There is a performance decrease using Windows Vista, but if you meet certain specs that you do it should not even be an issue. This drop in performance is made up by what Windows Vista does opposed to Windows XP. It has several more effeciency things within it that seems like its pushing your system when in reality its not. What these do is increase the performance on your more frequently used programs. Also your video card is DX10.1 and optimized to run especially well with DX11 and DX10.1 games. With Windows XP you will be stuck on DX9.0c which utilizes ATI's HD3xxx line poorly.
I don't mind staying in DX9, what really is bothering me about Vista is the constant errors and security issues, it's a bitch to handle...
"The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy?" - Albert Einstein
Why stay with a 32-bit OS?
64-bit is the future.
And Vista is fine with SP2.
All those memories will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.
I still get errors with games here and there and vista absolutely hates gameguard, so...
"The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy?" - Albert Einstein
Vista has changed alot since service pack 2 and it no longer the crappy shell of its former release. I run both Vista x32 and Win 7x64 ( as a couple games dont work with win 7 as yet) and I have No problems whatsever with Vista. I would recommend going with Vista if the choices you have are Xp or Vista
I still get errors with games here and there and vista absolutely hates gameguard, so...
Game Guard hates pretty much any OS.
And upgrade to 64-bit so that you can have more than 4GB of system memory.
I'm using Vista 64-bit Business Edition that lets me have up to 128GB of system memory.
Home Premium only lets you have up to 16GB.
All those memories will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.
I don't think you are really going to see that much of a difference. I would stick with Vista.
"Those who dislike things based only on the fact that they are popular are just as shallow and superficial as those who only like them for the same reason."
on this PC better XP, I think
Vista slow and take a lot of memory for nothing
Some features in Vista interesting, but working good only on new fast PC
Won't see much difference in games, but vista is smoother on desktop usage.