Question about buying a new PC

[csidle]

I am wondering, is it safest to keep my money and even make more money for a PC build untill after Vista and DX10/Physics cards, all of that has kicked in? If I bought a PC now, it'd be something along the lines of a 7900GT, 2GB RAM, 3700+, but that would be bit of a waste when the new Windows comes out, because I want to be able to use DX10 and all that and not have to upgrade.

[Eden]

Re: Question about buying a new PC

Well youll defenetly need to save because to run Vista properly your looking at a minimum of 3GB or ram, a 512MB graphic card a heavty HDD and a minimim of a 3.2GHz processor.

[<}US{>BlackHawkPilot73]

Re: Question about buying a new PC

yes. well you still over a year so just go ahead and built it. 7900 are soposed to be Vista Ready

[Sir. S.A.S]

Re: Question about buying a new PC

they said that about the 7800GTx aswell. But id build it now if you current pc is really out of date. IF not just wait for vister and AM2 etc

[LoD]

Re: Question about buying a new PC

Well youll defenetly need to save because to run Vista properly your looking at a minimum of 3GB or ram, a 512MB graphic card a heavty HDD and a minimim of a 3.2GHz processor.

Did you just make up those numbers because they are grossly incorrect.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx

[Eden]

Re: Question about buying a new PC

No I didnt make up those numbers and they are quite correct. The requirements Microsoft give you are the bare minimun, your computer will just run on those specs, with XP you had to double the recomended specs for your computer to run resonably well, and with Vista your going to have to tripple the recomended specs.

The following is what one of the MS developers said.

here is a Quote from a high level Microsoft Developer that I know...


What are the system requirements I need to run X software/OS

1. To Get the computer to Turn on and get only to the login screen
Minimum system requirements
2. To Get the computer to Turn on and to log in and ONLY view files on your desktop (not access or run ANY programs)
Recommended
3. To Turn on, Login and run programs
3x recommended.


So what does this mean.

If the recommended amount of RAM to run vista is 1GB than you damn better have at least 3GB's of RAM.

I have this installed at work on a 2.8Ghz processors and 1gig of ram and it realy does run ok. Of course I'm running the bare bones version without the "Glass" windows and such.

[LoD]

Re: Question about buying a new PC

Thats doubtful, i agree that the official specs are probably too restrictive, but 3GB of ram is an odd number, and not even standard on high end machines today.

That quote, where ever you got it, is probably from some uber software developer hardcore user. Thats his opinion and he is entitled to it, but I dont think he is correct.

[Eden]

Re: Question about buying a new PC

take into consideration this. Right now XP requires 512MB or ram to run, but thats about it, it will run and programs will work, BF2 will even work if you have a decent graphics card but only with everything on low.

If you want to run BF2 at its full potential you need at least 2BG of ram, similarly with Vista if you want to run it at its full potention you will need 1-2BG of ram but thats only for Vista, nextgen games will require ram in the GB's which means you will need at least 3GB of ram to run games on Vista to get any decent graphics out of it.

[Painl3ss.NL]

Re: Question about buying a new PC

similarly with Vista if you want to run it at its full potention you will need 1-2BG of ram but thats only for Vista

512 Meg minimum and 1G if you want to run Windows Aero. Which means most of the extra memory is used for GUI stuff.
Note that if you run a game in fullscreen mode all of the Windows Aero GUI stuff can be swapped out. You'll also probably switch off unnecessary services.

Bottom line, I think Vista overhead when playing a fullscreen game will not exceed 512M and will probably be close to XP when you tune the services a bit.

So 2G will be fine for a while. Also quit a bit of current mobo's take a hit on the memory clock when running more then 2G.

Then again, I'll probably won't upgrade to Vista for at least another year, a lot can change.

[csidle]

Re: Question about buying a new PC

I will be saving money for about 2 years from now, and then I will buy a monster machine, because then we will have adapted somewhat to dx10, and hopefully physics cards will be common, and average ram amount will have hopped up to about 4 gigs for gamers.