Sorry to burst in here Not saying Reynod is wrong but can anyone show me some proof? Vindicoth Distinguished. Jul 27, 55 0 18, 0. Like making you sit at your computer longer, while waiting for files to transfer. It does that much better than XP. Shadow Champion. Feb 3, 15, 0 51, May 23, 35 0 18, 0. Shadow :. DX 10? TechnologyCoordinator Splendid. Feb 22, 4, 0 22, 4. I'm happy with Vista. I only had to give up a few old XP applications.
And now everything that comes out is made for Vista. Crysis runs good for the hardware I have. And yes, quad-core will work with XP home or pro. Jun 22, 39 0 18, 1. M3d Distinguished. Jul 11, 0 18, 0. Will Vista allow a dual boot system?
It was my understanding that it will not accept a second OS Apr 19, 0 18, 2. I dislike vista, but I don't want to state my reasons in this thread, already expressed my opinions in the Vista section of the forum XP will use Quad core's just fine and will also be able to use even more cores when Such processors exist for the home desktop market. May 24, 1, 0 19, 0. The only software I had big issues with was Sid Meier's Railroads.
I did a lot of research on the web and they is an unsupported fix for it that worked for me. Dos games don't seem to work, but they actually work great if you run them inside of an emulator. Where there's a will, there ususally seems to be a way. Aug 15, 0 18, 0. IE 7 Protected mode. Oct 5, 21, 59, 1, For Vista don't forget the seperate Registries per user so people who screw up their login registry don't destroy the entire OS.
Also Vista is like XP. Vista seems faster in some things to me plus I don't need to look for a work around or edit some file and possibly corrupt it for a game to use DX Hell even with how big SP2 was for XP it ran much faster and smoother. And yea XP can support Quad cores. I'm not sure about Octo cores though. But maybe it can. Dec 10, 6, 1 26, Dec 12, 1, 0 19, Maybe because the person doesnt like vista and the 6 year old OS works fine and gets better performance in games.
Its also cheaper. I am never going to install vista. I have no need for it. BTW you can get Vista Ultimate for Thats great considering it is the same thing as the retail just in a slim DVD case. Forums New posts Search forums.
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Joined Oct 19, Messages I game, multitask a good deal, use Photoshop though v5. I'm wondering which is going to give me more speed an E or a Q As far as how long I intend to keep this CPU, it will easily be a year, very likely a good 2 years. In this example the "A". If you know how to do a binary breakdown, this would read The 2 rightmost bits will tell you where to start looking for the error.
In the i architecture, there are 3 levels of programming "insulation or security". You are only interested in he righmost bits to determine 0,1,2, or 3.
Oct 5, 21, 59, 1, I agree that with the app, thats what counts. But when it comes to just the OS Xp does not manage multicores as well as Vista does. When they are running non multithreaded apps XP tends to load the first core to its max first where as Vista tries to split it up. The thread-pool changes include generally improved performance and the ability to support multiple pools per process. This seems a good time to mention Vista's system-wide anti-convoy features. A "lock convoy" is a situation where performance tanks because a large number of threads are blocked, waiting for a resource, and when the resource becomes available, every thread is awoken, all but one fails to acquire the resource, and all but one are set back to waiting.
When the number of threads is high enough and the work performed per thread is small, the time spent in overhead can overwhelm the amount of time spent working. That lock convoys arise from attempts to make thread scheduling "fair" is just one of those surprising results that turns concurrent programming into such a challenge. Vista uses a different lock handoff mechanism that's "unfair," in that there's now a race condition between a lock becoming available and its acquisition by the first thread in the wait list.
This makes it possible for a thread to "sneak in" and grab the lock sending the should-have-been-scheduled thread to the back of the wait list and at least theoretically raising the potential of starvation. Lock convoys were, anecdotally at least, often the root problem of system-wide freezes that lasted for several seconds and then disappeared. CaptainSpok Distinguished. Apr 22, 5 0 18, 0.
I'm looking to replace a desktop whose hard drive started clicking. What vendors would you recommend? Thanks in advance. Start a new thread CaptainSpok. Major thanks to B-Unit and Scotteq, and others for bringing this down to my level. I really appreciate it. I was misunderstood about how it all worked and didnt realize that the answer was there. I just didnt get it. It is now almost clear what I need to shop for. A couple more question's and I will be set Is there a particular reason or reasons that you recommend avoiding the Q8XXX processor?
Just curious I will also need a Mobo. This is the one below that I have in mind. Any thoughts from anyone? If not, any other recommendations to match the Q or Q9xxx?
Sorry this goes off topic a little The answer is "it depends on if you're going to Overclock, or not". So even at the same speed, the newer processor will be able to move more data. It appears you are in the position of building completely new, since you mention motherboard as part of your shopping list.
It's new, so there is a bit of a price premium, but for your intended use I think it would be worth it. Thanks Scotteq.
You have been very helpful. I wasnt really planning on doing too much in the way in overclocking. Maybe a small amount. I want reliability more than anything else. Of course it will depend on the temperature that the final rig gets up to while rendering videos. The computer will be in an entertainment center, as it is currently. Right now, I am using a 3. Not sure how the Quad compares in heat production. As it is, I think I will be seeing a 4x increase in rendering speed. I dont think I will be affording an I7, but I am now convinced that buying the quad core over the duo is the way to go, now that I know that the XP OS will support it.
If the only reason that the Q8XXX series isnt popular is that it isnt as overclockable, I can accept that for the price. Any other input? Still looking for the motherboard to accompany. If anyone feels that this topic should be changed to a different thread, please say so Thanks again for your help and comments. Tha Vanman. The Q66 I've had one running at 3. But at stock speeds, I would still recommend an 8 or 9 series for the improvements in Instructions Per Clock.
Sry for the delay, but the Q8xxx chips have had most of their cache disabled, hence should have been called 'Pentium Quad-Core'. While I find this just fine for a basic machine who needs a quad in a basic machine tho for CPU intensive tasks, you will loose performance to a Q or Q9xxx.
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