i just upgraded from 1G to 5G's.. and i can't tell

g25racer · 05-19-2008, 03:23 AM

All that hardware does no good unless you tune your OS for it!! You have to have a good running and clean OS in order to see performance change.

slotguy · 05-19-2008, 03:30 AM

good point.

for the record i'm using the vista ultimate 32bit... and i think i hate it. just upgraded a month ago from XP...

tlarkin · 05-19-2008, 03:32 AM

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Originally Posted by slotguy

good point.

for the record i'm using the vista ultimate 32bit

how much free HD space do you have? Vista caches everything to RAM and virtual memory, so it needs at least 15 gigs of free space and probably at least 512 to 1gig free RAM to run well. I would say you got the RAM covered, but what is your free space looking like on your HD?

slotguy · 05-19-2008, 03:40 AM

well the C drive is an 80gig that's just for windows and program files. i've got 15.2 g's free..

cohen · 05-19-2008, 03:48 AM

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Originally Posted by slotguy

well the C drive is an 80gig that's just for windows and program files. i've got 15.2 g's free..

hhmm....

for a OS like vista and you need to have a least a 120 or a 160 GB hard drive or bigger!

tlarkin · 05-19-2008, 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by slotguy

well the C drive is an 80gig that's just for windows and program files. i've got 15.2 g's free..

That should be OK since that is what they (Microsoft) suggests you have free space wise. A good rule of thumb is always keep about 10% of your drive space free. However, I think vista is a bit more resource hungry. I think your biggest problem is probably your processor, and I would possibly look at upgrading if you can sometime soon.

cohen · 05-19-2008, 03:56 AM

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Originally Posted by tlarkin

That should be OK since that is what they (Microsoft) suggests you have free space wise. A good rule of thumb is always keep about 10% of your drive space free. However, I think vista is a bit more resource hungry. I think your biggest problem is probably your processor, and I would possibly look at upgrading if you can sometime soon.

so your sayingy upgrade the CPU for the compatiability???

tlarkin · 05-19-2008, 03:59 AM

Vista is always paging stuff in and out in the background, so if you have higher specs you technically get way better performance. I don't know all the ins and outs of it because I don't use Vista on a regular basis, but I do know how the under the hood technology works.

Since everything is constantly being cached out to RAM or HD (virtual memory) the process is also busy, even when idle, given that a Pentium D is last gen tech, I don't think it is optomized to run Vista is all.

As for the compatibility issue with the 5gigs of RAM, you would need to run a 64bit OS and have a chipset and BIOS that support that much RAM. It is a combination of hardware/firmware/OS that causes 32bit OSes to not see all the RAM, as well as 64bit OSes, because some older version of BIOS assume you are running 32-bit OS.

cohen · 05-19-2008, 04:03 AM

OK Well then we'll see what the OP says.

OP:
What has your system got in it hardware wise?
If it is OK and you decide it is OK to upgrade a few things, what type of budget are we looking at?

slotguy · 05-19-2008, 04:13 AM

i don't mind upgrading the cpu.. might as well.

it's basically a dell demension e510, 2.8g.. with a XFX 8600 video card, a 133 ultra ata card with two 300 gigs HD's hooked up to it, and the memory upgrade.. i think that's it.

i want something i don't hate. something i love seems impossible.. so maybe something i like would work. whatever it takes..

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