About to get Vista

[Kornowski]

Any tips or general stuff?

I'm backing all up photos and stuff onto CD's to put back on...

I heard gaming takes a performance hit, does it?

Bioshock, not running, it'd kill me

 

[spanky]

go with basic, you don't need anything more

 

[INTELCRAZY]

Home Premium is awesome, you won't have any problem with the visual themes....

No, Gaming does not take a performance hit, it does better... Games like BF2142(when it lets me login, EA's Account Server's fault), B&W2, CoH, TDU, and Steam games, just seem to work smoother. Vista boots faster than old crappy XP too. I love Vista!! Just some printer driver problems, but that's expected and not MS's fault.

 

[Kornowski]

Excellent!

It looks better too!

I've seen a lot of people saying it's bad, but then people I speek to who, have it are loving it.

Will 2GB of RAM be enough? I may get 4GB some time...

 

[spanky]

2 gb is plenty fine

 

[Kornowski]

Can 32bit Vista see 4GB of RAM?

 

[spanky]

not fully, if you want to run 4 gb get x64 version

 

[Kornowski]

Alright sure, so it'd see like 3.25 or whatever it is, I can't remember

 

[INTELCRAZY]

Alright sure, so it'd see like 3.25 or whatever it is, I can't remember

Get 64-bit... It runs 32-bit programs perfect.. Plus the OS itself is faster at extracting files, etc. At Idle, I use ~29% of my RAM... I am upgrading to 4Gb But it still flies in games, thanks to the desktop window manager thing, from what I've heard.

 

[ThatGuy16]

64bit Home Premium OEM

You get nothing with basic, its not transparent, no media center, or side bar.

 

[jutnm]

i love ultiamte, but if u dont want the doo dads , go basic , its enough and ur up todate