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

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.
 
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...
 
slotguy said:
good point.

for the record i'm using the vista ultimate 32bit
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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 said:
well the C drive is an 80gig that's just for windows and program files. i've got 15.2 g's free..
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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.
 
tlarkin said:
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.
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so your sayingy upgrade the CPU for the compatiability???
 
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.
 
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?
 
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..
 
I have a legal copy of Vista Ultimate sitting on my desk right here in front of me, which I have not installed on my PC yet, mainly due to my machine is about 4yrs old right now. I will be building a new one soon for mainly Fallout 3 and Startcraft 2 when they come out.

I will be trying vista full on then. If you want to make the jump to Vista you will just have to build a better rig unfortunately, in my opinion, or turn a lot of features off in Vista which are resource hungry.
 
tlarkin said:
I have a legal copy of Vista Ultimate sitting on my desk right here in front of me, which I have not installed on my PC yet, mainly due to my machine is about 4yrs old right now. I will be building a new one soon for mainly Fallout 3 and Startcraft 2 when they come out.

I will be trying vista full on then. If you want to make the jump to Vista you will just have to build a better rig unfortunately, in my opinion, or turn a lot of features off in Vista which are resource hungry.
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Yes i agree.
 
I wanna see specs on the hdd! You have cache speed on the hdd? If its low then thats gonna be a major setback. Nobody ever thinks about a hdd when you actually need a fast hdd to move alot of info. 32mb cache on my hdd and load times are super fast
 
I have 6gb of memory in my machine. I due a lot of Photo and Audio editing.
My OS is Windows XP Pro x64bit. I also duel-boot to windows xp pro (32), due to
the fact that my spysweeper that I run once a week won't work in x64. And really notice the differences between the 2.
 
I have a duel-boot system. Windows XP pro (32) and Windows XP Pro x64.
I do a a lot of Photo and Audio editing. My Main OS is is the x64. But I jumped
down into the (32bit) once a week to run my Webroot Spy Sweeper Program. They
are suppose to be working on a x64bit program now. My Memory is 6gb of
Patriot Extremes. I can really tell the difference between the 2 OS's.
 
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