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    Why does Vista perform better on my 1520?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by kLay, Oct 21, 2007.

  1. kLay

    kLay Notebook Geek

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    Laptop specs:
    Intel Core Duo 2 1.8Ghz
    2GB RAM
    256MB GeForce 8600M GT
    Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit

    PC specs:
    AMD Athlon 4000+ socket 939
    2GB RAM
    640MB GeForce 8800GTS
    Windows XP Pro 32bit

    So I put XP on my brand new Inspiron 1520 and the benchmarks came back worse than Vista but it's the other way round on my PC, why is this? Is it down to the processor? should I get an AMD dual core or would I better switching to Intel?
     
    kLay, Oct 21, 2007
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  2. Gilliann

    Gilliann Notebook Consultant

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    Vista works better with dual core cpu's and manages memory much better then xp. What bench marks are we talking about here though? your post was very vague. Either way vista is a better os hands down. People will agrue either way because of driver support or something else. If you properly set up a vista machine the overall performance will be better (yes I know games are still slightly slower).
     
    Gilliann, Oct 21, 2007
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  3. CitizenPanda

    CitizenPanda Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Given virtually *any* system, Vista will be slower than XP. Bar the top of the top (4gz Quad Core w/ Dual SLI 8800s) - those may have equal performance under Vista and XP.
     
    CitizenPanda, Oct 21, 2007
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