XP vs. Vista For New Gaming PC and other questions from a PC newbie.

Hi,

I'm just looking at buying a gaming PC at the moment, but I don't really know too much about the things at the moment.

It's vitals will be something along the lines of: quad core 2.4Ghz, 4 or 8 Gb of 800Mhz DDR2corsair ram and an 8800GTX 768Mbvideo card.

What would the better OS be for me?

I've also heard that 2x 8800GT 512Mb are better than a single 8800GTX and cheaper, is this actually true or does the DX10 make enough of a difference on vista to make the 8800GTX worth it.

Additionally what wattage of power supply should I be looking(single HDD) and is liquid cooling worth the extra money or is that really only worth it for top of the range gaming PCs.

Sorry for bombarding you with questions any answers and advice will be greatly welcomed.

It might be worth checking the SLIzone forums for the best advice on what graphics/power configurations to go with. But I'd say that 8800GTS 640Mb edition would be a safe bet, they're slightly better than the GT (not to be confused with the normal GTS edition which is slower than the GT... why nVidia have played around with their naming I don't know but it sucks.)

But like I said, just do some searches on the SLIzone forum and you'll find tons of usefull information.

Oh and 8 Gb of RAM is pointless, nothing will utilise that. 4 Gb is a bit of over kill also, you wouldn't see much difference between 2 and 4 Gb to be honest, but if you do go with 4Gb you NEEDa 64-bit OS because 32-bit OS's can't see all the RAM, I don't know the full reason why, I just know that 64-bit is required to use 4Gb.

Have fun

It might be worth checking the SLIzone forums for the best advice on what graphics/power configurations to go with. But I'd say that 8800GTS 640Mb edition would be a safe bet, they're slightly better than the GT (not to be confused with the normal GTS edition which is slower than the GT... why nVidia have played around with their naming I don't know but it sucks.)

But like I said, just do some searches on the SLIzone forum and you'll find tons of usefull information.

Oh and 8 Gb of RAM is pointless, nothing will utilise that. 4 Gb is a bit of over kill also, you wouldn't see much difference between 2 and 4 Gb to be honest, but if you do go with 4Gb you NEEDa 64-bit OS because 32-bit OS's can't see all the RAM, I don't know the full reason why, I just know that 64-bit is required to use 4Gb.

Have fun

NosmoKing1984

You mean the GTS 512meg version. The 640/320 are the older versions, which are slower then the GT.

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It might be worth checking the SLIzone forums for the best advice on what graphics/power configurations to go with. But I'd say that 8800GTS 640Mb edition would be a safe bet, they're slightly better than the GT (not to be confused with the normal GTS edition which is slower than the GT... why nVidia have played around with their naming I don't know but it sucks.)

But like I said, just do some searches on the SLIzone forum and you'll find tons of usefull information.

Oh and 8 Gb of RAM is pointless, nothing will utilise that. 4 Gb is a bit of over kill also, you wouldn't see much difference between 2 and 4 Gb to be honest, but if you do go with 4Gb you NEEDa 64-bit OS because 32-bit OS's can't see all the RAM, I don't know the full reason why, I just know that 64-bit is required to use 4Gb.

Have fun

G013M

You mean the GTS 512meg version. The 640/320 are the older versions, which are slower then the GT.

The gts640/320 version are both slower than the gt. the gts 512 is faster than the gt