New upgrade, stay with xp or go vista?

Soon I plan on getting a 10,000 rpm hd and 4 gigs of ram and I thought about using the old hd for pictures, music, videos, etc and the new one for games only. My question is, should I stay with xp for the new upgrade or go to vista?

I know that vista uses the 4 gigs of ram and that xp will only use 3 or soemthing like that. I'm also using the 32 bit version of both OS's.

Both OS's use the same amount of ram when 32 bit, vista just lies about it. I say upgrade to vista 64bit OEM... but thats just because I have used it for a year now with no issue. Also, OEM means no cables, so grab a sata cable.Munkyman587

[QUOTE="Munkyman587"]Both OS's use the same amount of ram when 32 bit, vista just lies about it. I say upgrade to vista 64bit OEM... but thats just because I have used it for a year now with no issue. Also, OEM means no cables, so grab a sata cable.yoyo462001

I wasn't talking about the space it takes up on memory... I was talking about the amount it could read.... unless you really think he meant XP took up 3 gigs of ram idle.

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I got Vista 32-bit, it sucks. But I admit..you need it even if it sucks you need it if you going to use more ram

[QUOTE="Munkyman587"]Both OS's use the same amount of ram when 32 bit, vista just lies about it. I say upgrade to vista 64bit OEM... but thats just because I have used it for a year now with no issue. Also, OEM means no cables, so grab a sata cable.yoyo462001

Go with XP, you'll get better games performace (sometimes by quite a bit expecially if you have older/slower hardware). The way I see it, there's just no reason to get Vista, pretty much all Vista exclusive games can be run in XP. There just isn't enough gain by getting Vista to outweigh the fact that it's slower and bloated.

Go with Vista. Its really not that bad anymore I don't see what people are smoking. I can play any game with no problem. Not buggy and 32 bit vista now reads all 4 gigs of RAM with that sp1 update :).blade55555

Damn, you should be on their marketing board.

[QUOTE="blade55555"]Go with Vista. Its really not that bad anymore I don't see what people are smoking. I can play any game with no problem. Not buggy and 32 bit vista now reads all 4 gigs of RAM with that sp1 update :).jimmyjammer69

Damn, you should be on their marketing board.

It does not actually use it... they just got tired of answering phone calls from people asking where their ram is. It is just patched to say 4GB in the system profile now.