Which operating system?

[Krazy_About_Technology]

I'll recommend Vista Home Premium, the best you can buy for your system. Your system will run all the premium features nicely. Whether you want to keep ur card, or sell ur card and buy a hdd or keep ur card and buy a hdd or whatever... its up to you, what you need. It wont affect your Vista experience by noticeble margins.

 

[bigdaddy486]

So, if i switch to x3000 and 160GB HDD, can i run vista smoothly? Does x3000 support DX10?

 

[fun2sh]

NO X3000 doesnt support directX10 but it support DX9 which is equally gud. i heard that intel wil release a driver which will enable the DX10 support on it. n dont think vista is bad. i m now enjoyin vista more than xp. in beginnin every new things feels a bit crap but wen u get used to it then u will know vista is lots more better than all other OS

 

[The_Devil_Himself]

Guys Windows aero effect makes use of DX9 not DX10.

 

[bikdel]

Well @bigdaddy486

as i said in my earilier post INTEL planned to include DX10 support with their final drivers... In their own words "If Everything goes Okay"

but as final drivers have been released, i dont think intels gonna work again to update the drivers of an IGP released 1.5 yrs ago...

the new X3500 is to succed x3000...

But DX 10 or not DX10, doesnt make much difference when you are using a mediocore/low-end GPU....

at last, Bon Voyage for Vista

@ The Devil Himself...

then why is it generally hyped that DX 10 cards are made for performance in windows Vista, when the main engine itself works on DX 9?

 

[gxsaurav]

then why is it generally hyped that DX 10 cards are made for performance in windows Vista, when the main engine itself works on DX 9?

Windows Aero engine uses DirectX 9 to work, but if u have a directX 10 card it makes use of DirectX engine using which results in more work being done in less clock cycles of the GPU.

DirectX brings other features to the table which were not in DirectX 9 like geometry shader, WDDM, Unified shader, GPU virtualisation, ability to use the GPU as a GPGPU etc etc

 

[Tech_Wiz]

Well My Rig is in my siggie. I know its more than enough to Run any Vista Version but I am sticking with XP till all the software / hardware support issues gets smoothened up a bit.