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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53578

Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB naked, tested - Instead of twelve memory chips the card has ten of them. Ten times thirty two gives you 320MB of memory. The card scores 28000 in 3Dmark03, 15000 at 3Dmark05 and 8800 in 3Dmark06. In games it pulls more than 100 FPS at 16x12. It looks fast to me. ATI DX10 R6

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JohnyDog · Contributor Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 32

[!] Microsoft: Vista follow-up likely in 2009 - With Vista just out the door, Microsoft is now drawing up plans to deliver its follow-up client operating system by the end of 2009, according to the executive in charge of building the product's core components. Hah, nice way to stop people upgrading to Vista. If they are going to have a new one soon and I was purchasing a computer right now, I'd opt for the stability of XP and hold out upgrading until the next OS version.
3 years from now = soon ? in IT ? And that is not factoring the delay of longhorn/vista which was expected sometime in 2003/2004 originally. And MS doesn't need to care about people not purchasing their OS, as in short time you won't have the option to buy computer with XP, only Vista.

miglaugh · Elite Member Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 367

thats when they switch to a windows subscription....

lmer · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:58 pm Post subject:

Yeah most third world countries use older version of Windows; Governments, schools, administrations, small businesses ... Also a lot of IT sector that depends on Windows is on 2k or earlier. I remember talking to some shareware developers that said how 80% of their customers were still on some older version of Windows and how they need to support those versions. The other 20% is in Europe and USA, and 10% of that is pirate.

I've been running Vista in a virtual machine for a few days now, and i really, really don't see any significant reason for an upgrade.

The good news is that, with some tweaking, you are able to run it on a 256MB (virtual) machine and even have 16 MB free Shocked

djRom · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:52 pm Post subject:

Wow...Are you using the ready boost stuff in order to compensate?

lmer · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject:

Well it's not like I'm using it really. It's just for compatibility testing. ReadyBoost and the other Boost were among the first to get disabled. Otherwise, they "manage-up" all your memory. With those two disabled there is actually a slight performance gain, even though all the action is in the pagefile lol.

xxxx · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject:

@johnydog -> Umm, ur talking 'namebrand' pc's come with vista if anything.. I believe there 'is' still a choice from almost all retailers. As well, where I live and people I know that bought custom systems from stores also have a choice OS or bare. And what's so hard about going to buy your own disc at the store. It's not like they don't stock every OS known to man. Nobody is forced to upgrade.

xxxx · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:54 am Post subject:

@Vista dual boot. hilarious. Pretty easy to dual boot, install Vista with existing XP, then in My Computer properties there is a set of options to fully configure the boot menu.... Partition tools are not required. Shocked