Hi,
I would like to know how the above CPU perform with Vista x64, I am
considering upgrading my Athlonx64 6400 to this CPU
and also I'd like to know about the following motherboard : ASUS M4A79
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Thank you in advance
Merci a l'avance
Martin
I actually just staged a machine with that combo - M4A79, PhenomII
Quad@3GHz. ASUS EAH4870 vid card with 1GB RAM. 4GB system RAM. 4x640G
WD Caviar dual-processor disks. Damn, those things are *quiet*.
I'm coming from a single-core 1.8G with a Soltek board from about 6
years ago. Big jump.
I initially tried it with XP64, and that was fine except for a few
apps that didn't work on a 64-bit system. I decided to be ballsy and
run one of those registry cleanup apps (used several of them before,
no problem); the install promptly fell over and died. Decided to do
Vista64 instead, just for kicks. I'd been bound and determined to
never look at Vista at all, but a friend of mine said I should at
least *try* it.
By my reckoning, everything looks pretty darned okay. I have some
niggles with how Vista uses physical RAM - once in awhile it's as if
the machine's paging to disk and my mouse pointer freezes up for an
instant. Word is, though, that this is just part of Vista sorting out
its memory allocation, and it'll behave better over time. I may feel
compelled to get a copy of Cacheman again though - they'll have a
Vista64-supported version in the next month or so. I may also tweak
Vista's precaching setting
So - what else can I tell you?
BD