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    Vista 32bit vs. Vista 64bit SP1 vs. XP Pro SP3

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jisaac, Jul 11, 2008.

  1. jisaac

    jisaac Notebook Deity

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    I triple boot my system with the above OSes. I conducted a passmark test on each of the OSes straight after the install.
    Results:
    Vista 32bit SP1 = 770 (base number)
    Vista 64bit SP1 = 800 (+3.9%)
    XP 32bit SP3 = 840 (+9.1%)

    IMO, 64bit vista is excellent. With the 64bit version, vista starts to approach XP's performance, whilst maintaining driver and software compatibility. I'm quite willing to accept the 5% performance drop (in these tests) from xp sp3 to vista sp1 64bit, for the nice gui, and extra features that vista offers. Of course the increase in performance could be accreditable to the 1gb of extra readable ram, however I also noticed improvements in the cpu score aswell.
     
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  2. sunairport

    sunairport Notebook Guru

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    Agreed. I have three laptops, two with XP SP3 and one w/ Vista x64 SP1. I'd run Vista on all except the two XP laptops are single core laptops. As long as you have a dual core machine, I think you should use Vista since its the latest and greatest and now is proven and stable and has more functionality (ergonomics wise).
     
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  3. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Isnt XP SP2 better than SP3?
    I know their are issues with SP3 and AMD based systems, and if I know something has problems, I dont use it.

    Nice scores, thanks for testing, XP is still the best :D

    K-TRON
     
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    zenpharaohs Notebook Evangelist

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    64 bit is a big enough advantage that on my 64 bit capable machines it makes no sense to run a 32 bit OS.

    And the 64 bit version of XP seems to never have got smoothed out enough, which leaves Vista 64. (Stuff I need to use which has licenses doesn't yet work on Linux).
     
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