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25. September 2008 @ 13:35 |
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that is true
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25. September 2008 @ 13:48 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Yup, it will hang for 5 minutes or so there, and another moment after you click the next button, takes considerable time to install, and often fails during the hardware installation section if you have an incompatible motherboard (note that a few core 2 duo motherboards are incompatible). Once it's finally installed, be greeted with an OS that takes four times as long as XP to load. Turns out the files not accessible problem is with windows itself, and not just vista, but XP has an easy fix to sort the problem out, Vista doesn't.
sam, i understand your frustrations with vista, and rightfull so, but please dont state them liek fact, please state that in your case this ahppened.
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25. September 2008 @ 14:06 |
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lol! But it's really true
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25. September 2008 @ 14:28 |
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The loading time is the case on everybody's PC I've seen so far. The bugs are neither here nor there, but the install time, random waits during install and the long bootup times are fact.
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25. September 2008 @ 14:53 |
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no wonder you need a lot of ram to run Vista, but hey Vista looks great the only con is the performance and buggy other wise it would've been a great successor of XP
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25. September 2008 @ 14:54 |
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It looks nice, but then so can XP, really.... :)
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25. September 2008 @ 14:59 |
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let just say, standard OS no extra themes, then yes, other wise XP can look as great as Vista
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25. September 2008 @ 14:59 |
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Agreed.
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25. September 2008 @ 15:29 |
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I know of people with pirated copies of XP that look and sound EXACTLY like vista, just a lot of skinning work done. I'll let you know how the Vista installation with the new HDD goes.
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25. September 2008 @ 15:35 |
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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 25. September 2008 @ 15:44
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25. September 2008 @ 16:39 |
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Another Anandtech cockup by the looks of things - the 3870X2 uses more power than that - I expect the test they used didn't work in crossfire so the second GPU sat idle. Apart from that the chart is useful though, the graph ought to be updated with newer GPUs.
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25. September 2008 @ 16:40 |
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No LGA775 motherboard is future proof because they will ALL be replaced in a months time.
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25. September 2008 @ 16:42 |
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lol don't you like anandtech? and yeah some of the results looks a bit weird
hmm...then what, must i wait until newer board is out? So that means only case, PSU and GPU are future proof
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25. September 2008 @ 16:44 |
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Future proof GPU? Dream on. Power supply probably, case, probably.
As for Anandtech, they said the freezer 7 pro gives the same temperatures as a tower cooler (I forget which one) - that is grade A BS that.
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25. September 2008 @ 16:46 |
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Also, X2 6000+? What the fonz? That can't be right...
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25. September 2008 @ 16:47 |
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Yeah PSU and case can be future proof, and even those not so much. A Blue Ray burner would last you about the same time also. Everything else gets outdated quickly.
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25. September 2008 @ 16:49 |
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no its not. they could have ben on a stock low power CPU, OR their meter doesnt read lower readings?
OR the fan could have been running at max.
anatech id trust, its one of the fully trust worth sites.
and why doesn't the 3870X2 use that much power?
Also sam, once again its not fact. my vista loads up in less than 2 minutes, with msn xfire, sidebar and everest and rivatuner all loading up at the start, on a nearly full 160GB per platter HDD.
i have had near 0 bugs, and no bsods that wernt an Ocing fault.
and this is on vista 64.
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25. September 2008 @ 16:51 |
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oh ok, thats not really believable for a cpu cooler
yeah, they sure do, but my future proof is like 2 years, because by that time i've graduated and started a part time job, you know what i mean.
and for the gpu, it is future proof, sam you're X1800XT last you quite some time didn't it?
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25. September 2008 @ 16:52 |
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umm sam, didnt the 8800GTX and the 9800PRO last a good 2 years?
and remeber the 6000+ had a 90nm proccess, big power consumption.
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25. September 2008 @ 16:53 |
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yeah exactly, they are quite good gpu at that time...and at this time HD4xxx are the best oh don't forget about GTX2xx
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25. September 2008 @ 16:54 |
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I used it for a little over 18 months as a main gaming card, it's still in use now in my server.
As for vista, you don't test it the way I do. When I test XP using your methods, it takes 28 seconds. Can Vista beat that?
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25. September 2008 @ 16:57 |
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whoa! ok, before you two start fighting, i don't know why, but my computer takes nearly a minute to boot up XP. Why?
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25. September 2008 @ 16:59 |
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what are my methods?
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25. September 2008 @ 17:01 |
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testing from the splash screen to when you can open a program. I test from pressing the power button to when the HDD usage ends, as that is when windows has finished loading, as that is the complete loading time of the PC.
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25. September 2008 @ 17:13 |
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ok guys change of topic, doesn't extra 512MB of RAM really help the performance? Well let say gaming on a 24"
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