Windows Vista Capable PC Requirements - Are You Ready?

[-mogwai]

My rig barely makes the Premium qualification. Oh well...

I registered for the CPP though. That should be cool!

wtf? how did you make it to premium and i got basic??

dual opty @ 2.8
2 gigs of pc4200
250gb sata ii hdd

hmm...

[Rofl-Mic-Lofl]

Wewt I made it! But.. I doubt I will buy it with this system. I will wait until my next full computer upgrade. I tried the newest vista beta.. and it mem- dumped on me 4x in an hour. It was extremely buggy, and made me think it will delay again missing Q1 altogether.

PS: There's a game on there where you make cake!

[DMB2000uk]

I'm not in any big hurry to make the leap. Don't see a big benifit to doing so. Sure, it may be pretty, but it's just more bloat to rob FPS.

Someone hasn't been watching the vista features...

Vista will stop all unnecessary processes before launching a game, i.e. less bloat

Dan

[DMB2000uk]

Oh yeah, and my laptop is only vista capable, damn Nvidia Go5200

Dan

[pcrobot]

I'm not in any big hurry to make the leap. Don't see a big benifit to doing so. Sure, it may be pretty, but it's just more bloat to rob FPS.

Someone hasn't been watching the vista features...

Vista will stop all unnecessary processes before launching a game, i.e. less bloat

Dan

I wonder if that will include Folding...

[Nobahar]

Why can't we make Vista stop all unnecessary processes all the time?

;p

[SlipSand]

The Beta currently doesnt support my motherboard well...According to DFI it doesnt support x64 (NF4 Ultra-D). So I tried installing Vista x64 and nothing works because my mobo wont support it. (GAY!)

Dad works for microsoft and I can get assistance for my problems 24/7 but still not worth it.

[werty316]

I am ready to roll although I won't be jumping on and using it as soon as it is out.

[karpediem]

Do you get to keep the beta or does it die on you?

after 14 or 15 days unless you activate it, I think it will lock you out. But believe me, you won't spend an hour on it before you can't stand it.

Like rofl-mic-lofl, mine memory dumped on me 3 or 4 times in an hour of using it. In my opinion, Vista is quite resource heavy. I have an AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 1 GB ram, DFI Lan Party board, 6600GT, and Vista was sluggish on my computer. I wouldn't believe MS when they say these specs are what you'll need to run Vista. It looks sexy but at a price. I would wait to get Vista until it's been released and see what problems people have, and see what a good rig to run it really is.

[werty316]

Way to get a key:

* Basically go to Microsoft Office 2007 �Get the Beta� Site
* Make sure you are logged in
* Select your Country
* In the gap betwen pressing go and the next page coming up a url will be in the address bar for a second.
* It will look similar to the https://www.microsoft.com/betaexperienc ... cid=2075&A etc.
* You might need to take a screenshot to capture the image
* Simily enter that url into the address bar and change office.aspx to vista.aspx
* Then it should forward you to the Vista Site
* Finally you will get an email with links to the Beta 2 Downloads(dont currently work)

http://bartysblog.be/content/get-your-w ... keys-early

[Sovereign]

Lock and load with:
Opty 170 @ 2.6GHz stable
2GB DDR500
2x eVGA 7900GTX SLI
150GB Raptor
500GB RAID0 array
etc...
Vista = pwnt by my superior hardware. If an OS ever exists that can bring this down, then I will cry.

[HONkUS]

what they fail to mention is that youll need a new video card with HDMI and HDCP support oh well I want a G80 anyway! but with the rumors that the next gen vid cards will require a seperate power supply that adds ANOTHER 100 buck so in order to watch hi-def anything on Vista expect to drop atleast 300 bucks on a new vid card and vid PSU. Fun.

[Sovereign]

Forgot to mention my 850w PSU....if that's not enough I'll just go cry in a corner. And if the OS itself requires HDMI and HDCP....then M$ needs to DIE.