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So I'm thinking about going against my better judgement and upgrading to Vista / DX10. Which version should I get? Should I go up to 4 gigs of RAM? Currently I have a E6700 Core 2 Duo, 8800 Ultra, and 2 Gigs of RAM. Will this setup work decently with Vista? Should I go 64 bit or 32 bit? Any suggestions / tips?
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You know I've read a lot of conflicting reports on whether to go with 64 bit or not. However if you don't go with 64 bit I think the system will only recognize 3 Gigs of RAM...I have a feeling that eventually we will all have to go to 64 bit. I was thinking about going with Vista when I built a new system about 6 months ago, but decided against it. I'm still upset that an upgrade to Vista basically means a 50% reduction in game framerates. That's still unacceptable for me. Supposedly that has gotten somewhat better with SP1, but I think you will still be looking at a 25% reduction. There's a good little article from October that was in Maximum PC magazine on Vista/ DX10 gaming. Check it out on page 46 of this pdf. Also you might want to check out their forums for a lot more discussion about Vista
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Rotacidare wrote:You know I've read a lot of conflicting reports on whether to go with 64 bit or not. However if you don't go with 64 bit I think the system will only recognize 3 Gigs of RAM...I have a feeling that eventually we will all have to go to 64 bit. I was thinking about going with Vista when I built a new system about 6 months ago, but decided against it. I'm still upset that an upgrade to Vista basically means a 50% reduction in game framerates. That's still unacceptable for me. Supposedly that has gotten somewhat better with SP1, but I think you will still be looking at a 25% reduction. There's a good little article from October that was in Maximum PC magazine on Vista/ DX10 gaming. Check it out on page 46 of this pdf. Also you might want to check out their forums for a lot more discussion about Vista I have always heard Most 32 bit apps run slower on 64 bit vista because of the overhead within vista. I have a 64bit (for coding) sys and a 32bit sys and until you start seeing more 64 games, it isn't worth it imho. I have also had 2 machines that I have actually uninstalled Vista from because it sucked balls so bad. Just my opinion though.
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Unless you play games built for it. Supposedly Bioshock runs much better Dx10 than in DX9?
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