Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Computer question(NFC)

[Mike Fleischer (themightytoe]

Jim its been a while since I built my own computer (maybe just over a year)

That said I would go with XP over Vista any day of the week.  I ran 
Vista on my machine as a dual boot with XP SP2 and there was nothing 
worthwhile that Vista could do faster than XP.  Reencoding a DVD, nope, 
ripping a CD, nope, playing a game, nope, browsing the net, nope...  Its 
prettier than XP, but its a performance regression, likely designed to 
eat CPU cycles so you upgrade to the latest Intel CPU.  Also all the 
nags it pops up are very annoying.

As for 32 vs 64 bit, I ran a 64 bit test release of XP a while ago, the 
drivers were not mature enough at that time, I think they are much 
better today but there are still some gaps in terms of the 32 vs 64 bit 
driver implementations so its quite HW dependent (eg what MB and Video 
card, and LAN and Audio, and etc are in your box).  The big thing you 
get with a 64 bit OS is the extra RAM and that alone might be worth 
doing.  a 32 bit OS will confgire for 3 Gig of RAM but never more as the 
extra memory available maps to peripheral memory space (video card, and 
other devices).  That said unless you are compiling large applications, 
or debugging across different architecures, doing CAD work or other 
memory intensive stuff it may not make any difference at all.

BR,
Mike



jim wrote:
> Ok, I'm in the process of building a new computer.   I'm currently running
> Win2K and will need a current OS for things like my DigiCamCorder software.
> So now I have to choose between XP and Vista.    Any thoughts?   All the
> reviews I read still seem to lean towards XP, with Vista being close, but
> still not quite up to expectations.
>
> Also, would it be worth it to get the 64bit version of either as they are
> essentially the same price from the Co that I usually buy from.
>
> The most that I do on my computer is pictures/videos and web surfing along
> with a few home apps.
>
>  
>
> Sorry for the NFC!   The F-Content has been GREAT lately. :-)
>
>  
>
> JIM
>
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