• Should i switch from XP to Windows 7?
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I'm currently on xp, i have a 2nd drive to make it easy to transfer data and i play A LOT of videogames (team fortress 2, halo. etc...) so i want to know if i should change to Seven. I want to know if i will be able to play Call of Duty 4, and a bunch of SOURCE engine games on that OS, would running both a heavy OS and the game could lower my FPS? MY RIG: Tipo de procesador DualCore Intel Pentium E2140, 1600 MHz (8 x 200) M board ECS 945GZT-M (2 PCI, 1 PCI-E x16, 2 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN) M Board Intel Lakeport-G i945GZ RAM 1536 MB (DDR2 SDRAM) Tipo de BIOS AMI (04/09/07) Tarjeta gráfica NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT (1024 MB) - I think it will run Aero. C: (NTFS) 76316 MB (5194 MB libre) D: (NTFS) 38201 MB (8029 MB libre)
It will probably run. Can always dual boot them though.
On your current specs, I'd say no. But I know all the w7 fanboys will rush and scream, go get it, xp is old and thus you should get a new os, blablabla. You will not gain more performance, if what, only less.
Fuck Aero, anyone who wants performance over annoying eyecandy has it on minimum settings or disabled. Get more ram, 4gb and W7 should be fine, otherwise I'd stick with XP.
[QUOTE=evilking1;20628247]4gb and W7 should be fine[/QUOTE] what I run (and game with) Vista perfectly with 2GB if you think you need 4GB for 7 you're an idiot
It would run, but I don't think your CPU could handle it. I don't even know how you're managing to play games with that.
[QUOTE=reapaninja;20628265]what I run (and game with) Vista perfectly with 2GB if you think you need 4GB for 7 you're an idiot[/QUOTE] It doesn't need, it's just that it runs slower than XP with little RAM. You are an idiot if you don't know this.
[QUOTE=reapaninja;20628265]what I run (and game with) Vista perfectly with 2GB if you think you need 4GB for 7 you're an idiot[/QUOTE] I don't know about that, Windows post-XP seems to use a lot more system RAM which kinda hit me in the ass since I'm usually running several VMs. If it wasn't for 64-bit I wouldn't be able to use Windows 7 with 4 GB, let alone 2. EDIT: OP: That proc is kinda weak, so try it if you want, but I wouldn't go out and buy a license if you're unsure.
[QUOTE=johanz;20628236]On your current specs, I'd say no. But I know all the w7 fanboys will rush and scream, go get it, xp is old and thus you should get a new os, blablabla. You will not gain more performance, if what, only less.[/QUOTE] XP is OLD. It was made in 2003, and so you would definitely like 7 a little more if you switched. You will, however, get a performance loss that might hinder games if you have Aero on.(You can always make a theme that has Aero off ;))
Either one is better than vista, in my opinion you cant make a wrong choice. XP is pretty solid and good on performance, where as 7 is good on performance but still has a few bugs here and there, but Microsoft is ironing them out. If you do switch to 7 I would reccomend more ram, but you could pull it off with you current 1.5 gigs.
Just don't. There is no need. Sure if you have a new pc or you need 64 bit, win7 is a must, but if your pc is not new and you don't carve for dx10/11 and other win7/vista only stuff, xp is enough.
[QUOTE=nicatronTg;20628744]XP is OLD. It was made in 2003, and so you would definitely like 7 a little more if you switched.[/QUOTE] I don't know why people use this argument, no one really cares that XP is old. It's not like a car, software doesn't age and go bad. You just miss out on mostly useless and/or visual features. You're off by 2 years, by the way.
Yea it could run. I wouldn't see why not.
Windows 7 is running on my netbook (with an atom processor, integrated GPU, and 1 GB of Ram) it runs great even with aero on. I think you can run it just fine.
[QUOTE=reapaninja;20628265]what I run (and game with) Vista perfectly with 2GB if you think you need 4GB for 7 you're an idiot[/QUOTE] you don't necesarily need it, but 4GB of ram is a good place to be by todays standards.
It'll run pretty well, but get some more RAM if you want to game at the same FPS you do on XP. As an Os though, it's heaps better, all those features that looked pretty neat in XP but turned out to be half-formed an ineffective work here, it's really good. Though not a huge change from vista, it's a lot more optimisedm and it's a pleasure to use, although the hype is somewhat unjustified, the reason Vista was shunned was because of its incompatibilities, which were fixed as the OS matured. Prt of the point of W7 was to turn over a new leaf. Vista was a decent OS, but everyone hated it because of the incompatibilities it had on release, the only way to escape the bandwagon being to get a new paint job and look innocent. Sorry if this sounds rambling, but it's probably right.
[QUOTE=Generic Monk;20636377]It'll run pretty well, but get some more RAM if you want to game at the same FPS you do on XP. As an Os though, it's heaps better, all those features that looked pretty neat in XP but turned out to be half-formed an ineffective work here, it's really good. Though not a huge change from vista, it's a lot more optimisedm and it's a pleasure to use, although the hype is somewhat unjustified, the reason Vista was shunned was because of its incompatibilities, which were fixed as the OS matured. Prt of the point of W7 was to turn over a new leaf. Vista was a decent OS, but everyone hated it because of the incompatibilities it had on release, the only way to escape the bandwagon being to get a new paint job and look innocent. Sorry if this sounds rambling, but it's probably right.[/QUOTE] Exactly
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