nicholas2, you mentioned that WinXP is better than Linux. May I ask in what way (apart from gaming of course)? What distro are you using?

odd, my machine has a rating of 3.7 and it lags like hell. The lowest score point is my processor.

xboxrulz

tomshardware.com released quite a review of Vista's Performance Indices. It shows perfectly how far those benchmarking tools are (in)accurate.

This post has been edited by xerxes: May 24 2007, 12:00 AM

It's still quite sad that my 5 year old machine is considered an up-to-date system (the processor is pre-HT). Yet it still scores 3.7 (close to being high-end) according to WEI.

However, as tomshardware said, it's only in relation to Windows and not to the actual hardware benchmarking.

My system benchmarking via CPU-Z:



My GFX card is: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 AGP (running 4X).

xboxrulz

I have a Genuine Copy Of Vista atm.
But, Im Not Going To Use It Until The Bugs & **** Are out OF It.

Well I know that this is an older thread, that hasn't been brought up in a while, but I thought I would share some of my experience with vista.

I just got a new laptop computer with an Intel core 2 duo 2.0Ghz processor, 2GB RAM, 256MB Nvidia graphics card, with windows vista ultimate.

I can say that it really outperforms my old 1.7Ghz pentium 4 computer by a ton, and I don't notice any lag anywhere, everything seems so speedy and works without a flaw.

I am so far enjoying vista, unlike what many others here seem to feel. I think the problem is mainly when people try and upgrade their computers to vista, whereas when you buy a computer for it, it'll work much better. Same thing happened with xp for a while, because a lot of hardware didn't have drivers that supported the operating system. If you want a new PC go for vista, and if you want vista go for a new PC.

I bought a new laptop back in March that had Vista on it. It is currently the computer I am using now. I like some of the newer features it has on it like Speech Recognition and being able to use your flash drives to speed up the computer, but it isn't really meant for gaming. Unless you go all out and pay the extra money for a really good computer, I'd recommend keeping Windows XP for playing games because you will lag a lot if not. It looks nicer and may be more secure but it's not high performance capable without lag.

I agree with the 'dont upgrade until a service pack' idea. Compatibility isn't great, performance suffers especially in games.
I'll probably just wait until i upgrade my computer - in that time hopefully microsoft will have caught on a started releasing a few service packs to fix some issues.

I think they should implement a gaming mode or something similar because the performance really does suffer. I know people that run it and are heavy gamers, they have top of the line video cards but still get performance of mid range cards in windows xp.
They should bascially turn down the cpu priority of all services/other apps and decrease the memory usage for them, as well as hard disk activity. In effect 'slowing down' windows to speed up games.

-HellFire

Well I haven't really tried much in the area of games, but in the area of business type software, and internet browsing, it seems to work amazingly well. Also, haven't had a single program crash on me yet, or a single error message. (I think i was in xp a total of about 5 minutes before I had some sort of error message pop up).

So maybe i'll try installing a game or something and trying to see about performance. But so far, it seems to be great....although I haven't tried installing xp on the machine (they gave me the cd's for both xp and vista, i am guessing in case i wanted to downgrade?)....I won't try xp unless I start running into issues with things, but so far, haven't had a single issue. Haven't come across any of these bugs people talk about there being a ton of....so it would be nice if somebody could point some out...because i haven't found any.

Security seems to be great in vista, and my virus scanner.....appears to allow this computer to run much better with it running....no longer do I notice any difference with a virus program running in the background (I can even run a full system scan in the background without slowing the computer down).