[NefCanuck]

Aka,Jun 12 2006, 12:53 PM Wrote:Well you only need the $800 in upgrades if you care about aero. I don't currently, so I wont bother, it runs a touch slow on the machine I'm running it on, but I imagine this is probably due to all the debug stuff being part of the beta. I imagine when it ships it WILL be quicker.

Also, Nef, I think the only real upgrade you need to run it is a video card and potentially RAM. I'm fairly confident that a P4 3 GHz would handle Vista quite fine. That said, I don't have one and can't confirm it, but if my 1.53 GHz AMD 1800+ can run it fine for everyday use type speed, I imagine 3 GHz Intel could as well.
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Problem is that this is a machine that I do everyuthing on so it pretty well has to be capable of putting Vista through its paces (I'm looking at Vista "Ultimate" here when I upgrade) I have a gig of RAM but I've been hearing nasty things that a gig of mainboard memory is merely "Adequate" for Vista Aero.

Other hassle is that my MB is so old all it has is AGP slot (No PCI-E) which is another bottleneck. Even if I get my hands on the hottest AGP card available now (which is already eclipsed by the fastest PCI-E cards) by the time Vista ships it'll be midpack at best and I'm stuck on a dead end upgrade path :(

NefCanuck