Is Vista worth using

[sandeep_arsenal]

My system config is
AMD ATHLON 64 3000+, GIGABYTE K8N51GMF-9 motherboard with 512 MB ram. I have an onboard NVidia 6100 GPU with 128 MB of memory.
My system has passed the minimum config for Windows Vista Home Premium but i want to know if it will run well on my system. I would like to use it only for basic browsing and music. but i want things to happen fast.
I used Vista Upgrade Advisor and it told me that Vista Business would be best suited for me though i think that the system requirements are same for home premium.
Should i install or not?
PLEASE HELP

[Kiran.dks]

You can comfortably run Vista with that configuration. Go for it. Although not lightening speed as the case would be with XP, but is enough for browsing, movies, etc,....

[Arsenal_Gunners]

yeah dude vista is cool.BTW. Take that ManUre ,we have one more gunner here

[shantanu]

yeah you can install it and surely it will run Ok.. but if you can upgrade t 1GB ram then the case would be real nice.. but your config is well for running vista..

[gxsaurav]

just get 1 GB RAM, that will be all u need

[rajasekharan]

why do you want to up the ram for running music and browsing ?? if thats all you use a comp for then stick with xp . think for a while mate .
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besides get a decent antivirus and couple with a good firewall your xp is safe and low on resource than vista . but if you feel the need of eye candy . then certainly you can go to vista . but then you need to shell out extra for ram . thats all

[sandeep_arsenal]

Thanks to all u guys.
I think i will upgrade in another 2 - 3 months cuz i hav to wait to buy ram .
I was also wonderin if there is any mid range dx 10 graphics card.
my budget is 10000-12000
will my corsair 512 mb drive work for ready boost??
Last time i tried it on my friends comp runnin vista beta 2 it said tht da drive was not fast enuf. but then i heard tht it was a bug and hence some drives gave this error.

[rahul_becks23]

its not worth it...........

[blueshift]

If I had resources, I would have surely upgraded to Vista.

[Tech Geek]

It is worth using

[rahul_becks23]

not for gamers until affordable DX 10 Graphics cards .........

[Siddharth Maheshwari]

Will vista ultimate run on the configuration as mentioned in the first post

[ambandla]

@siddharth. yes it will run but will be very slow. Atleast use a USB thumb drive to improve performance a little bit (only if you have one).
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I am running vista on AMD 64 3000+ @2.42 GHz, 1GB RAM, 160gig hdd and it rocks. it's very fast but the main problem is with drivers and softwares.

[Siddharth Maheshwari]

Originally Posted by ambandla

@siddharth. yes it will run but will be very slow. Atleast use a USB thumb drive to improve performance a little bit (only if you have one).
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I am running vista on AMD 64 3000+ @2.42 GHz, 1GB RAM, 160gig hdd and it rocks. it's very fast but the main problem is with drivers and softwares.

Thanks rep for u

[rahul_becks23]

just wait a few more months...............let everything get a bit smooth ............... then it'll be ready to rock

[ambandla]

thanks siddharth. I have started two threads: softwares that work and softwares that dont work in vista.

Please update those so that it's easy for everyone. I got few lists from the web that contain such lists but aren't that good.

eg: it's menioned that the latest version of kaspersky is compabile with vista. NO. I tried that, vista crashed with blue screen (tried twice with same result). Now. kaspersky is half installed. it's not uninstalling.
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If you think that this is a problem with Vista, NO. it's a problem with kaspersky as they do not have proper package for vista.