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Originally Posted by Kornowski
I've also found it to be well faster than XP too... but just my opinion!
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Most users who have upgraded to Vista have noticed this, including me on my Athlon XP 3000+ college machine!
Athlon XP 3000+
1GB RAM
80GB HDD
Radeon 9250
Windows Experience Index = 1.0
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Originally Posted by tlarkin
Vista does not out perform XP though, and even if you dig through benchmarks you will find them neck and neck or XP beating vista. It just gives you the illusion by preloading applications into memory. Loading time may be a bit faster but actual performance while using an application is identical. Which is why its not worth the several hundred dollars to upgrade IMO.
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Its actually $69 to upgrade to Vista Basic on Newegg. On a test on my AthlonXP rig I did a month ago on another forum, Vista beat XP on almost every test, one by a very long way.