Anyone using either VISTA or a duel core CPU have any negative experiences with either? I know Vista needs power grunt and at least 1G [2G is better] of ram to work efficiently, so I'm more interested in negatives apart from the obvious power or ram issues.

Anyone using either Vista or a duel-core CPU having any program issues?
IE: they wont work or are unstable etc? Or negative issues with Vista operation itself?

Crash

No prob's with Pentium D, Core 2, Dual Core Opteron x 1 CPU, and Dual Core Operteron x 2 CPU. Have been using all (especially Opterons) for some time and absolutely no drama's with stability or app compatability under, XP, W2k3SRV. Pentium D's run hot. Am using a watercooled one to write this.

Have Vista Enterprise running on HP Core 2 notebook, and a Pentium D desktop in the office. No problems yet, but I don't use them to do anything other than officey stuff. More important than RAM is the video card although as you say 1GB should be the starting point for RAM.

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Pixie

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Thanks for that AngryPixie,

I've just ordered an AMDX2 4600+ duel core 65dn low watt [low heat] model. I know the specs. say that similar Intels across the range are a bit better performance wise [unnoticeable in the real world] but gee, the low prices on AMD at the moment are amazing due to the rush on Intel and the recent release of the quad cores. $160 for the 4600 so prices have plummeted to a 1/4 of original prices.

I'll go with a nForce 570 ultra mobo for the AMD and a 7600GT video card [a little bit of gaming gets done on my rigs :-)) ].

I'm still unsure if Vista is worth the bother and expense. I had heard there were some stability problems with certain programs. Sounds like there might be some heat issues due to the extra power draw needed.

Lowering your carbon footprint then Crash. Me too. The machine I use 95% of the time is a little Sony Vaio TX notebook with a Core Solo CPU and 1GB RAM. Goes along really nicely and I can get 9 hours battery life out of it. More if I use an extended battery.

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Pixie

"It's worth remembering that profit isn't profit until it's spent off the racecourse." -- Crash

There is nothing negative to say about the dual or quad core processors apart from the price of the quads at the moment. Prospective purchasers of quad core processors would do well to hold off as in a few months they will be up to 50% less in cost.

The positives are that the price on the duel cores have dropped and single cores up to 3.60Ghz are now within almost anyone's price range.

Users can now upgrade their old machines to something really fast at a fraction of the previous cost.

A word or two on Vista...

There really isn't a great deal of advantage in upgrading to Vista at this stage, in fact there are more disadvantages than advantages.
The bugs have not been addressed
Service Packs not released
And a lot of software has compatibility issues and cannot run on it.
It is more eye candy and developed for media enthusiasts and eats cache like there's no tomorrow.

I would suggest anyone that wants to use it, have a standard PC running XP and a Vista PC until various compatibility issues are ironed out.

I have used Vista and will be sticking with XP for quite some time.

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Thanks for that Chrome. I 've just been reading an article about Vista and your saying pretty much the same. There are issues with it and after all apart from the eye candy [at my age?], program use is more important than OS. The other PC here is still running 98 just fine [Zoe likes it].

The AMD4600 duo [65w] I've ordered is 2.4Ghz for $160 compared to the 3500 single core [90w] it's replacing, which was 2.2Ghz and cost me $350 [now $100].
As for Quad cores, apparently they are noisy[?] and really, I can't see many rushing out to get a new mobo platform to run one and what applications would benefit? Anyone need to do 4 things at once?