So...XP SP3 or Vista 32 Ulti SP1?

[Buffalo Six]

for the new build......I really want Win7 but thats a ways down the road for now.

XP is a known animal, but limited to 2.5ish gigs of Ram

Vista is....well Vista warts and all

so opinions?

[PanzerMeyer]

I thought XP Pro supported up to 4 GB of ram?

[Softball]

XP and Vista (32-bit) can utilize up to 4GB of Memory (Total).

XP or Vista, for simplicity's sake, I would go with XP. It is a viable OS and Vista still has some quirks with certain programs and games.

[VEGETA]

if 32 bit system XPpro, new egg stil has copies. If 64 bit then go Vista, the xp 64bit was not well supported at all. the vista one sopose to be good


What you do on the 32 bit it turn off the page file and such so the ram is more utilized and such.

[Buffalo Six]

damn Veg the other day yo said XP only saw 2.75 of your 4 gigs....

ok so I'll be staying with XP pro

So the build is now looking like this:

Sony Optiarc 22X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model AD-7220S
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000KSRTL 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000KSRTL 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
mushkin 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model 996601
EVGA 132-YW-E180-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 790i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80580Q9400

I already ordered a CoolerMaster HAF 932 case because ATM, I have a cabling nightmare with the 2-260s in SLI and the Corsair PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811119160

[VEGETA]

um it only dose see that much lol. But turning off paging file gets u more ram usage


XP dose not seam to see all of it. But other memorys are included in this sort of thing.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 432AAXsMEL


http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000811.html

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7586_102-0. ... ID=2305149

[Buffalo Six]

editied my above post......see build there