Category: Geeks r Us
hi all i want to upgrate my computer and i will use ram 8 gb
duiomy spect pentiam duo core 2.4 ghz 320 hd 8 gb ddr2 mainboard i'm not sure but i want to get a mainboard have 12 usb or more
i use 2 soundcard 1 is uSb audio interface and 1 is creative
somebody told me i must use winvows vista but i'm not sure is acessable more than windows xp or not
if i use windows xp i can't see my ram 8 gb
if i install vista i will see ram 8 gb somebody told me like that
ok this is a chois for who not sure about vista or xp is better.
You can use vista or xp .. so long as you use the 64 bit edition of either .. however you are better off using Vista 64 or Windows 7 64 since nothing really works with XP 64 edition. My personal reccommendation My personal recommendation is to go with Vista 64 edition with the upgrade to windows 7 64 or just wait till windows 7 is shipping in october.
I'd say wait till seven comes out then do this.
Either wait until 7 comes out, or use Windows Server 2008 64 bit, it also works with Jaws. What about Linux, there are 64 bit versions of Fedora, Ubuntu, etc available, they've got Orca, just a thought.
ok i think windows 7 is better vista i ever listen some potcast is like vis ta is not quite acessable but now i think i upgrate to duo core and get ram 3 gb to do anything like this
play game street fighter 4 create music by my uSb audio interface and use xp to wait windows 7 come octorber
Well if you are not planning on buying a new computer in october with windows 7 on it i would pre oreder windows 7 now as its the best price you are going to get on it. Also while 64 bit editions of linux are acessable they do not have an audio recording program thats accessable and has as many features as sonar.
from what i have read here, i'm not really sure as to why you feel you need 8gb of ram anyway.
most day to day tasks and a lot more can be run on a machine with 3 or 4 gig.
You'd be just fine with only 3 GB of Ram even for Vista, so long as you don't go below 3 GB of Ram or your system will really struggle to run Vista on so smaller amount of Ram. Right now, I'm sat on my baby Della (a Dell studio 1537 laptop running Vista Home Premium 32-bit on around 3 Gb of Ram) and she is just so fast, it is unbelievable. For example, you barely have to touch I for Internet Explorer before she's loaded my Google homepage, she looks neat, she's about the most solid laptop I've ever seen, she only has 4 USB ports but that's about as much as I need for the moment, but my friend has a Quad Core PC running Vista Home Premium and he's kind of played with it, so it now has 14 USB ports, let alone 12, so that would probably be the way to go if you're wanting so many USB ports rather than down the lappy route. Unless you're planning on downloading a lot of audio, music, big pieces of softwareare and various programs which require this 8 GB of Ram, you'd do just fine with 2.5 GB of Ram and above to run Vista 32 bit. However, to be able to store much more info than your machine could cope with, I'd invest in a Western Digital Mybook 1 TB external hard drive, or several with all those USB ports you're planning to fill, from Amazon. I got mine earlier this year for £84, about the cheapest I could get my hands on, lol. Baby Della doesn't struggle with it either, considering the hard drive's capacity is 1 TB. Marvelous.
Jen.
oh long long way i think if computer have more hardisk computer will run faster
because it have more free space
i don't know it's true or not
first off anything over 2gb doesn't really do much for 32 bit vista or xp, i am sure that dell has a faste enough processor and or ramm as well. Secondly Hard disc size, and free space on the disk, has nothing to do with how fast your computer will run. If you are doing things like recording and editing/mixing audio, the extra ramm can make a difference with how many plug ins you can load and how fast certain things can render .. it has all to do with how big are the projects you are working on though.
Oh and also .. a desktop is preferable for audio recording as well since PCI/PCI express interface cards are more effecient than usb/firewire ones. But if you are planning on using USB or Firewire interfaces, it doens't really make much of a difference.
it's not 2 gb, 3 gb is the limit for 32 bit versions of windows. Also, if all you're going to do is game, and make music, then an x64 system with 4 gb of ram should do you perfectly fine. And no, the bigger the hard disk, doesn't make your computer faster. Also, just preorder windows 7, and build your computer later. Also, 12 USB ports? what for! If you have that many ports, and I may be wrong here, but you're going to get some sound issues because the voltages from the other ports will be taking power from the sound interface. I don't know if you get what I mean, maybe someone can clarify. But basicly what will happen is you're going to hear pops, clicks, and skips in the audio.