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Will i be able to run XP games and other software on windows vista, im thinking of upgrading, but this would be utterly pointless to me if i cant because i use my pc for nothing more
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....generating sooo much heat w/ his rig! He can raise ambients in a room to near F4T4L conditions...causing his competion to wither and die.

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Will i be able to run XP games and other software on windows vista, im thinking of upgrading, but this would be utterly pointless to me if i cant because i use my pc for nothing more
first try a dual boot to see if it will support your hardware, and play the game you want. Resize your partition with attached program, just burn to CD and boot from. then resize it (takes a while) and then install Vista on the second partition, and it'll dual boot with a menu to choose which to boot from.

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EDIT: almost 90% of programs that work in XP work in Vista (save most Anti virus, or video editors, use AVG 7.5)
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i use a dual boot already with linux and xp, thanks for the help
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....generating sooo much heat w/ his rig! He can raise ambients in a room to near F4T4L conditions...causing his competion to wither and die.

System: my system...*cough*...life
CPU
AMD Athlon x64 4600+ X2
Motherboard
Asrock Dual SATA 2
Memory
1gb Dual corsair 400
Graphics Card
Inno3D 7600gt 256mb
Hard Drive
2x Samsung Spinpoint / 1x WD Raptor 36GB
Sound Card
Onboard 7.1 audio
Power Supply
Cooler master iGreen power 500w
Case
Thermaltake Soprano
CPU cooling
Zalman FS-C77 Fatal1ty
GPU cooling
Zalman FC-ZV9 Fatal1ty
OS
Ubuntu Edgy eft / XP Pro
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Acer AL1916W 19" W/S
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