was just wondering if my system would run ultimate it consists of :

AMD quad core 9550
2gb matched 1066 ram
500gb hdd
GTX260
Gigabyte MA790x mobo

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/get/upgrade-advisor.aspx

yeah, no troubles

strictly speaking you don't need a case

It would run it and then some.

Only issue you might have is with the ram quantity. If you have performance issues, that's where I'd look first.

Only issue you might have is with the ram quantity. If you have performance issues, that's where I'd look first.

yeah thats what i was thinking, but will be getting another 2gb matched set in the near future

Only issue you might have is with the ram quantity. If you have performance issues, that's where I'd look first.

yeah thats what i was thinking, but will be getting another 2gb matched set in the near future

RAM quantity nothing, ignore that bloke.

Vista Ultimate runs fine (with Aero disabled) on my XP2400 (2GHz) with only 1GB of DDR400 RAM. Your PC will run it fine with Aero, no question at all.

RAM quantity nothing, ignore that bloke.

Vista Ultimate runs fine (with Aero disabled) on my XP2400 (2GHz) with only 1GB of DDR400 RAM. Your PC will run it fine with Aero, no question at all.

Reading comprehension fail... You'll note that I said IF he has problems to check this first. It's not like I do this kind of thing every day after all :P

I love the way people have begun to believe that *nothing*, no matter how powerful, is fast enough for Vista :D

It's because a whole bunch of laptops with rather basic video chipsets came pre-loaded with Vista. Nevermind that a 4 year old Geforce 6800 Ultra (an AGP card no less) can run Aero just fine.

Windows 7 Beta > Vista

Personally if your intending on forking out money I'd wait for Windows7 due out I think in May this year from memory.

Really? Source on this? I thought it was most likely due for release 2010.

Sorry my memory IS bad :)
November this year according to PCWorld and <"http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080124-windows-7-in-2009-be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html">Arstechnica.

They state these are rumors so who knows.

AMD quad core 9550

it should run the OS smoothly.. what you choose to do on that platform is another question

I seriously doubt they'd be able to push out an O/S earlier than first estimates (3 years from 2007).

it's funny how beta wares-whores want to be taken taken seriously.


enough of them are out there that they've you've now gained some attention. why pay beta testers when you can them for free?


good work guys (if you were silly enough to pay or spend personal time using Vista)

last edited by koopz at 23:02:13 11/Jan/09

^^ Vista's not that bad, at least it's not windows me

yeah dude... it is.


either way, it's not lasting. W7 is coming to erase it all away (from a marketing perspective)... it's the same core or not? I've given up looking into this stuff now

koopz I really have no idea what point you're trying to get across with those beta tester comments, not to mention the rest of your poorly constructed sentences...

But yeah Vista is nowhere near Me, I don't understand how you can be aware that marketing has been such a problem for Vista and let your opinions still be a product of it.

either way, it's not lasting. W7 is coming to erase it all away (from a marketing perspective)

I don't really see how W7 could erase everyone's fear about vista considering the interface for W7 is different even to that of Vista let alone XP/2k so business users are still going to be afraid users will have to be re-schooled on how to find their documents folder.

I found the UAC or whatever it is in W7 even more annoying than vista, so much so that I've resorted to simply mashing "yes" until whatever it wants me to do gets done. I'm not even sure if it was a message from the firewall, the application requesting admin privileges or unsigned drivers.

I'm not sure if it's because I'm running it in a VM or what but on a fresh install the back/forward buttons on my mouse don't even work, I assume an install of the IP software will remedy this but considering this is windows 7, and I'm using an intellimouse v3, you'd think it would at least be able to recognise it and have all the buttons work. As I said though, I have a feeling it's not really windows' fault and more a fault of me running it in a VM so for now this negative mark is being discarded.

edit: hmm nope even after intellipoint is installed back/forward still don't work but I cbf installing it outside of the VM just to see if my mouse works.

edit2: Buttons don't work in XP inside the VM either so, as I figured, it's not W7's fault. As you were.

last edited by whoop at 01:33:10 12/Jan/09