1. DDz Quorum Friar Posted December 27, 2011 1. DDz Quorum Posted December 27, 2011 Ok chaps, Made the decision that now is the time to park XP, as much as I love it and move to Win 7 (I do have 4gb of ram sitting in my machine after all). My specs are as follows; Intel® Core™2 Duo E8600 (2 X 3.33GHz) 1333MHz FSB/6MB L2 Cache 4GB CORSAIR XMS2 800MHz - LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2x2GB) ASUS® P5N-D: DDR2, SATAII, 2 x PCI-e x16, 2 PCI, 2 x PCI-e x1 1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE 9800GT PCI EXPRESS ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD) (Realtek) 600W Quiet Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan 500GB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7,200rpm) I was thinking of going for 64bit - How can I check if my memory / processor will work with 64 bit software? Anyone see any problems? I know that it is a complete new install from XP by the way.. Friar Quote
2. Administrators Jabo Posted December 27, 2011 2. Administrators Posted December 27, 2011 You should be OK Colin, your CPU and memory will both run 64-bit Win7. Although you won't gain much of a performance advantage over 32-bit, using 64-bit gives you the capability to increase the memory over the 4GB threshold should you want to... I ran 64-bit 7 on a nearly identical setup quite happily. You should find the PC is significantly faster running 7 vs. XP (I've lost my original benchmark figures - by 'lost' I mean they're somewhere buried on one of my drives - but I know I got an improvement) Personally I think 7 is (and has been) one of the best OS's Microsoft has produced and it'll be interesting to see how Windows 8 measures up... Get a cheap (legit) copy of Win 7 by registering one of the kids here - http://www.software4students.co.uk/ and you can buy software at big discounts. Win 7 Pro 64-Bit upgrade is £38.49 inc VAT and delivery (Office 2010 Pro Plus is £37.89 (2 licences!)) Jabo Quote
1. DDz Quorum Friar Posted December 27, 2011 Author 1. DDz Quorum Posted December 27, 2011 Thanks Jabo Just been on to the site but it is unable to process my order at the moment, probably lots of people with new pc's buying software! Cheers Friar Quote
DD_Arthur Posted December 27, 2011 Posted December 27, 2011 Colin, you know with Win7 and a graphics card update your system will run anything? The graphics card dosen't have to be supa-spangly either. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gainward-GTX-460-Golden-Sample-/130621651301?pt=UK_Computing_Computer_Components_Graphics_Video_TV_Cards_TW&hash=item1e69a83965 As is the way with these things it's all going vertical and gravity is doing it's bit. Quote
2. Administrators fruitbat Posted December 27, 2011 2. Administrators Posted December 27, 2011 yep, that gfx card, win 7 and the rest of your system will run clod with acceptable GFX, plus rince RoF. Oh, and 32 bit is so 2005. Quote
1. DDz Quorum FoolTrottel Posted December 27, 2011 1. DDz Quorum Posted December 27, 2011 32-bit is 2005? Darn, just bought me a new hard disk, am now cloning the XP partition over to the new disk! Oh well... Quote
2. Administrators fruitbat Posted December 28, 2011 2. Administrators Posted December 28, 2011 32-bit is 2005? Darn, just bought me a new hard disk, am now cloning the XP partition over to the new disk! Oh well... Says the guy who wants to host il2 fb 2.04 lol! 2005 Quote
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