Vista
Moderator: Claw
Running 5.0 on mine on average altho my GFX is top -
CPU - 5.0 (AMD Athlon X64 Dual Core 4400 @ 2.21GHz stock speed)
RAM - 5.1 (2 GB)
GFX - 5.9 (XFX GeForce 7800 GTX Extreme Gamer Edition 256MB
Gaming GFX - 5.9 (as above)
HDD - 5.2 (Maxtor 120GB SATA)
Looks like my CPU and RAM need a lil clocking
CPU - 5.0 (AMD Athlon X64 Dual Core 4400 @ 2.21GHz stock speed)
RAM - 5.1 (2 GB)
GFX - 5.9 (XFX GeForce 7800 GTX Extreme Gamer Edition 256MB
Gaming GFX - 5.9 (as above)
HDD - 5.2 (Maxtor 120GB SATA)
Looks like my CPU and RAM need a lil clocking
Life - Its the **** that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come...
Not sure if it works (as I have Vista so wont run) but try this - <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... lang=en</a>
Life - Its the **** that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come...
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President Gas
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I can run aero on my old geforce fx5200, and with the onboard x300 graphics on my media pc.
It really hogs cpu and memory though.
And the indexing thing, although a really good feature, makes a slower pc unusable while it's working.
Even on my media pc, Athy64 3200, 1 gig pc 3200, geforce 7200. . . . it will still slow down so much i cant stream tv properly when anything is running in the backround, such as a virus scan or a defender scan or indexing service. But then the media center portion is a strange beast, it takes 100% cpu power to run it properly, as a default option, it's set to only use 50%, but then it jitters and stops and starts, isn't terribly stable either.
I also find that if i've been watching tv for a while then change channels, it'll forget i've got 2 decoders and leave one of them tuned to the channel i was watching, and give me a 'no signal' error from the other tuner. Very odd.
Media center isn't very girlfriend friendly either, i'm forever being given the rolleyes when it wont work properly, and she's scared of using it because she thinks it'll break easily. That's not necesarilly a media center problem though.
Personally i think vista is trying to be too much like mac os, which isn't a bad thing, but it's doing it in a M$ way, loads of background stuff, meaning you need a supercomputer just to browse the net.
It really hogs cpu and memory though.
And the indexing thing, although a really good feature, makes a slower pc unusable while it's working.
Even on my media pc, Athy64 3200, 1 gig pc 3200, geforce 7200. . . . it will still slow down so much i cant stream tv properly when anything is running in the backround, such as a virus scan or a defender scan or indexing service. But then the media center portion is a strange beast, it takes 100% cpu power to run it properly, as a default option, it's set to only use 50%, but then it jitters and stops and starts, isn't terribly stable either.
I also find that if i've been watching tv for a while then change channels, it'll forget i've got 2 decoders and leave one of them tuned to the channel i was watching, and give me a 'no signal' error from the other tuner. Very odd.
Media center isn't very girlfriend friendly either, i'm forever being given the rolleyes when it wont work properly, and she's scared of using it because she thinks it'll break easily. That's not necesarilly a media center problem though.
Personally i think vista is trying to be too much like mac os, which isn't a bad thing, but it's doing it in a M$ way, loads of background stuff, meaning you need a supercomputer just to browse the net.