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Conor
Last night I knocked up a PC for my son. It's an Athlon XP1500, 512MB
RAM, a 6yr old 40GB HDD and a GF4MX.
Installed XP Home on it along with the usual list of software I install
and several 3D shooters. 34GB in all.
3D gaming aside, it blows my computer out of the water. Boots faster,
feels faster, opens apps faster etc.
My Vista box?
X2 4800, 2GB RAM, SATA RAID.
Disgusted? NOT BLOODY KIDDING. It just proves that it's not just down
to drivers.
Perhaps if Vista spent less time hacking away at the HDD, it might get
a decent speed increase. Even now, months into the installation, it's
there chugging away at something as I type this.
RAM, a 6yr old 40GB HDD and a GF4MX.
Installed XP Home on it along with the usual list of software I install
and several 3D shooters. 34GB in all.
3D gaming aside, it blows my computer out of the water. Boots faster,
feels faster, opens apps faster etc.
My Vista box?
X2 4800, 2GB RAM, SATA RAID.
Disgusted? NOT BLOODY KIDDING. It just proves that it's not just down
to drivers.
Perhaps if Vista spent less time hacking away at the HDD, it might get
a decent speed increase. Even now, months into the installation, it's
there chugging away at something as I type this.