XP-home vs Vista my hardware

vista FTW.

With that hardware I think you should be in vista. Get 64-bit if you can so you can make use of your 8Gb ram!

Dude, why did you buy 8GB of RAM when your running a 32-bit OS??

That un-used RAM is much more likely to become corrupted.

Your system will run Vista just fine...

As an avid Vista hater way back when, I was in shambles over what to install on my PC. I lingered on different flavors of XP (which, I might add, was a waste of money in the end), and finally bit the bullet and bought Vista Ultimate x64 upon the release of SP1.

Haven't looked back since, and I actually threw away my XP Pro and 64-bit software.

Vista 64bit

Well, it seems that you have hardware that will indeed work well with Vista.

You have to make a decision wether you want to go to Vista 32 bit or 64 bit. If you want your 4GB RAM recognized, you need to go to 64bit.

I recommend you verify if there are drivers for all your hardware in vista 32bit / Vista 64bit before you can make this decision.

Personally, I went from XP home 32 bit to Vista Ultimate 64 bit (new computer), but I had to replace several peripherals:

- Scanner (no support for Vista)
- webcam (no support for vista 64bit)
- Video capture (no support for vista 64bit)

FTW = for the win!

BUt would any one say that given my hardware would vista run better then XP I have masters of both. but I am told my VGU Will only run well on vista becouse it is 10.1 platform. X10 And I'm told that XP will NOT run above X9?

No, XP will not run anything above DX9, but GPUs are backwards compatible meaning a card that supports DX10.1 card will also work fine with DX9 or DX10.

64-bit XP will run use fewer system resources than Vista, but you have a powerful rig that will handle Vista just fine so...

It's Vista time!

ok witch version of vista would you say would give me the best performance without all the bloatware? But still have all the help apps?

ok does anyone know were to get ultimate 64 cheaper then newegg? (179$)?

No point for ultimate really, I mean if I recall correctly Dreamscene used a lot of resources. Just make sure you get 64-bit or sell some of your RAM because there's no reason to have 8GBs on 32. Again check the drivers and programs though. Not sure, but there were some mention about virus protection being limited on 64-bit(then again its not a huge concern if you're smart about your online activities).

Vista Home Premium 64bit edition.

Thanks a lot every one hopefully vista takes care of my problems.