Pck21
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Ugh so here's the deal...
I currently have Windows XP Media Center 2005 installed on my machine. As you can see in my sig, my system has 4GBs of ram and a 64-bit processor. I want to upgrade to Windows Vista 64 bit but I have some questions. So here it all goes!
1.) Can I buy a copy of Windows Vista Home Premium and upgrade to the 64 bit, or, is there a Vista 64 bit upgrade DVD that I can buy?
2.) Is it better, performance wise, to upgrade or do a fresh install?
3.) Can I buy another hard drive, install Vista 64 bit on that hard drive, and then have an option at POST as to which hard drive I want to boot into? If so, how hard is this?
4.) Which version of Vista should I get? Home Premium or Ultimate? I will only use Vista to game.
5.) With Windows 7 coming out in a few years, should I even get Vista?
6.) Is all of this time and money worth spending just to game?
(That's a rhetorical question by the way!)
Thanks everyone!
I currently have Windows XP Media Center 2005 installed on my machine. As you can see in my sig, my system has 4GBs of ram and a 64-bit processor. I want to upgrade to Windows Vista 64 bit but I have some questions. So here it all goes!
1.) Can I buy a copy of Windows Vista Home Premium and upgrade to the 64 bit, or, is there a Vista 64 bit upgrade DVD that I can buy?
2.) Is it better, performance wise, to upgrade or do a fresh install?
3.) Can I buy another hard drive, install Vista 64 bit on that hard drive, and then have an option at POST as to which hard drive I want to boot into? If so, how hard is this?
4.) Which version of Vista should I get? Home Premium or Ultimate? I will only use Vista to game.
5.) With Windows 7 coming out in a few years, should I even get Vista?
6.) Is all of this time and money worth spending just to game?

Thanks everyone!