I am about to custom build a new pc. For starters it will run amd's 3.30ghz 6 core processor, a radeon 5870, and 12-16gigs of tri channel ddr3 ram. I do alot of 2d design (adobe photoshop, fireworks, flash, premiere pro, and after effects. As far as 3d design ( Autodesk Maya, Pixologics Zbrush, and headus uv for uv layouts. I do not game heavily on my pc but when I do it will be something such as a mmo like maple story or Battlefield 3 when it comes out. Regardless I want to get the most out of my pc's power and my question here is the OS. Do you think I should run Windows XP 64bit or Windows 7 64bit?
Originally posted by Dante016: I am about to custom build a new pc. For starters it will run amds 3.30ghz 6 core processor, a radeon 5870, and 12-16gigs of tri channel ddr3 ram. I do alot of 2d design (adobe photoshop, fireworks, flash, premiere pro, and after effects. As far as 3d design ( Autodesk Maya, Pixologics Zbrush, and headus uv for uv layouts. I do not game heavily on my pc but when I do it will be something such as a mmo like maple story or Battlefield 3 when it comes out. Regardless I want to get the most out of my pcs power and my question here is the OS. Do you think I should run Windows XP 64bit or Windows 7 64bit?
I am also running an AMD 6 core(3.2 Ghz,8gb ram and RAID5)setup. One would think the older/lighter OS XP64 would be faster... however.... For me it was Win7-64 hands down. Most of it was stability and driver development being much more mature for Win7, I believe.
i tried windows 7, and in reality, theres not much difference between vista and 7, a bit more eye candy, and 7 of course uses more resources than vista. i would go with 7 only if ya want more eye candy. Personally i hate it. Im a win 2000 Pro type of guy, other wise xp. very easy simple and to the point. let the suits and little buisness geeks have there eye candy.
