DrPepper
The Doctor is in the house
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- Jan 16, 2008
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System Name | Rusky |
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Processor | Intel Core i7 D0 3.8Ghz |
Motherboard | Asus P6T |
Cooling | Thermaltake Dark Knight |
Memory | 12GB Patriot Viper's 1866mhz 9-9-9-24 |
Video Card(s) | GTX470 1280MB |
Storage | OCZ Summit 60GB + Samsung 1TB + Samsung 2TB |
Display(s) | Sharp Aquos L32X20E 1920 x 1080 |
Case | Silverstone Raven RV01 |
Power Supply | Corsair 650 Watt |
Software | Windows 7 x64 |
Benchmark Scores | 3DMark06 - 18064 http://img.techpowerup.org/090720/Capture002.jpg |
I'm triple booting Win XP, Vista Ultimate and Win7 beta.
So far its XP > WIN7 > VISTA
XP is still running faster, uses less system resource and just runs smoother overall. Vista takes FOREVER to load my picture thumbnails and videos thumbnails. I mean FOREVER. XP does it in less than 30 seconds.
From my experience with dual booting xp and vista I found xp to take ages to load stuff like apps etc.
Also, my 5:1 surround sound does not work in Vista. All the channels are messed up. The 2 front work ok, but the center and rears are way OFF.
Probs a bug with the drivers
On Idle:
XP uses 800mb of Rams.
Win7 uses 950mb of Rams
Vista uses 1.5-2gb of Rams
Vista and Win7 do look better overall. But XP is faster, and uses less resource to do the same thing. It does all this faster and with less ram.
Vista uses more ram because it uses superfetch. Superfetch caches RAM so that commonly used applications load faster = higher ram usage. When that ram is required by the OS then superfetch gives it to that program.