Vista vs Windows XP Benchmark comparision

[Simmy]

Thanks Andy - what's with your sig? Is that your website?

 

[Andyuk2007]

Thanks Andy - what's with your sig? Is that your website?

yeah its my video sharing website, its run on a VPS . the owner of badpsychics.com uses it alot for his embedding of videos for there articles, I feel comfortable with showing you lot it since it had a CSS make over

I need some advice how to promote it more as it only has around 40 accounts on it.

 

[JRDtechnet]

Took a quick video of my machine opening Firefox/Word 2007, extracting and then rezipping Service Pack 3 files with Winrar and finally running Geekbench.

The video was recorded using CamStudio. It would be interesting to compare our rigs using the same recording software and the same tests.

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PC Spec;
Intel 8400 @ 3.6ghz
3.25GB RAM
8800 Ultra
2 x 250GB RAID 0
Vista 32bit

Hmm well nothing wrong with your computer!!

 

[lawson_jl]

I didn't bench mark it but I installed Vista on a system with 1.1Ghz, 512MB RAM, and a Radeon 9250 video card. The system ran pretty well with a thumb drive used as a Ready Boost drive and a few services tweaked.

 

[nonchalant]

This thread is really quite irrelevant.

XP may be faster than Vista at opening control panel, but who cares when you've got a Q6600, 4GB of RAM, a 8800GTX, RAID 0 with WD Raptors & Vista 64-Bit lol

Your XP may boot quicker than my Vista but I bet I still beat you in game loading times (its rare anyone loads before me in BF2) and Ive got a sweet, much prettier entertainment system compared to your boring old XP

My setup: http://www.overclock.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/7207/cat/500/ppuser/40469/sl/n

You just need good hardware. Vista is like a woman. Give her what it wants & it will get down on its knees & play lol

 

[gunslinger]

Your XP may boot quicker than my Vista but I bet I still beat you in game loading times (its rare anyone loads before me in BF2) and Ive got a sweet, much prettier entertainment system compared to your boring old XP

Two points: First, I see you have the same case I do. Pretty nice system. Second thing, I have yet to see someone defend Vista that did not bring up games at some point. I get the same kinds of arguments against Macs. ( Sure Macs are all around better, and the OS is better, and they are more secure, and have better resell value, but what about my Call of duty and crysis? )

When its all said and done, it does not matter that XP is more effecent, faster, more stable. Vista is new, shiny, and has DX10. There are people that will defend it to the death just because of these things without a leg to stand on. Its not something that can be reasoned against.

XP may be faster than Vista at opening control panel, but who cares when you've got a Q6600, 4GB of RAM, a 8800GTX, RAID 0 with WD Raptors & Vista 64-Bit lol

I can count on one hand the number of people I know that have access to a system like that. Most people are still trying to run Vista on OEM systems they got at Wal-mart or staples. They may have 2 gb of RAM and integrated graphics. Vista may run fine for you because of the monster set up you have but for most it does not. I think you have fallen victim to thinking everyone who owns a computer should have what you have in terms of hardware. I have seen many computer tech make such remarks.

 

[Simmy]

Gunslinger, any chance of a video of your computer opening word, showing task manager, de/compressing SP3 etc in Vista? I've never seen a computer anywhere near as slow as your machine sounds and it looks like you have decent hardware.

 

[gunslinger]

I nuked the Vista partition after the benchmarks, and to be honest would rather not reinstall Vista natively. I can post a video of my current XP install in action if you like.

 

[JRDtechnet]

I nuked the Vista partition after the benchmarks, and to be honest would rather not reinstall Vista natively. I can post a video of my current XP install in action if you like.

sure why not