OT: Anyone Running Vista 32 Ultimate OEM?

[Skylorde]

I have Vista Ultimate 64 OEM and I want to scrap it to run the 32 bit. My serial will work with the 64 or 32 bit version of Ultimate providing the installation media is OEM.

Care to rip an ISO? I'd be forever greatful

[m]

I have Vista Ultimate 64 OEM and I want to scrap it to run the 32 bit. My serial will work with the 64 or 32 bit version of Ultimate providing the installation media is OEM.

Care to rip an ISO? I'd be forever greatful

well, perhaps if you spoke english...

jk, good luck!

all i understood was that I'm glad that I didn't get Vista...

[Journey69]

Nothing wrong with Vista.. I have zero problems.. I have Vista 32 Ultimate.. Dreamscapes are awesome.. Plus sevice pack 1 comes out in a few weeks..

[Rip Rokken]

Vista is dog slow unless you have at least 2GB RAM and a cutting-edge processor.

[m]

Nothing wrong with Vista.. I have zero problems.. I have Vista 32 Ultimate.. Dreamscapes are awesome.. Plus sevice pack 1 comes out in a few weeks..

Then maybe you can help Skylorde?

(& I should have added, 'yet' - sounds like there are a lot of bugs to work out)

[Journey69]

Vista is dog slow unless you have at least 2GB RAM and a cutting-edge processor.

I have 2 gigs of ram and a E6600 dual core processor, 8800 GTS video card..I'm into games..

[Rick]

Vista is dog slow unless you have at least 2GB RAM and a cutting-edge processor.

I have 2 gigs of ram and a E6600 dual core processor, 8800 GTS video card..I'm into games..

Damn, what a system. I built mine almost 2 years ago and at that time it was a monster. I used to be into Half-Life alot, but not so much anymore.

[Voyager]

I have heard nothing good about Vista. It was just a money grab on the part of Microsoft. XP Pro works fine for me. I just purchased a new Dell machine for my recording studio with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor, 2GB RAM, and Windows XP Pro. Dell still sells machines with WinXP because of all the complaints about Vista. Digidesign Pro Tools won't even run on Vista.

Why fix it unless it is broke?

[Journey69]

I have heard nothing good about Vista. It was just a money grab on the part of Microsoft. XP Pro works fine for me. I just purchased a new Dell machine for my recording studio with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor, 2GB RAM, and Windows XP Pro. Dell still sells machines with WinXP because of all the complaints about Vista. Digidesign Pro Tools won't even run on Vista.

Why fix it unless it is broke?

Vista has directx 10..Xp doesn't..some games like Bioshock use it.. I have a physix card also.. It just matters what you use it for.. For your studio stuff ,you don't need Vista... I have a razer barracuda sound card that you would love for your studio..It has dolby digital live and dts..Its optical.. Awesome gaming card and music sounds so damn good!

[Voyager]

Vista has directx 10..Xp doesn't..some games like Bioshock use it.. I have a physix card also.. It just matters what you use it for.. For your studio stuff ,you don't need Vista... I have a razer barracuda sound card that you would love for your studio..It has dolby digital live and dts..Its optical.. Awesome gaming card and music sounds so damn good!

My Digidesign DIGI003 with 24-track Pro Tools software comes with its own sound card and connects via firewire:

[Journey69]

Vista has directx 10..Xp doesn't..some games like Bioshock use it.. I have a physix card also.. It just matters what you use it for.. For your studio stuff ,you don't need Vista... I have a razer barracuda sound card that you would love for your studio..It has dolby digital live and dts..Its optical.. Awesome gaming card and music sounds so damn good!

My Digidesign DIGI003 with 24-track Pro Tools software comes with its own sound card and connects via firewire:

What kind of chip does it use for sound? creative,cirrus logic? Or is it like a texas instrument or ibm kinda of thing..I know nothing about that kind of equipment..

[Skylorde]

Vista runs fine for me. There *are* issues with the 64 bit version and some software and some hardware. For the most part, I've tolerated them until I installed iTunes yesterday and I find out the fuckin burner part of iTunes will not work on Vista64. That was the last straw. I'm going to switch to Vista Ultimate 32.

Here's Vista in a summary:

Security: much better than XP. Not that big of a deal for me but for the average user, that will give them far better security

Speed: It *is* slower than XP, assuming equal hardware. I have 2GB ram and I'm constantly using 60% with your average apps open. Add Photoshop to the mix or similiar and it will drive memory usage up to 90% or more.

Searching: Don't be fooled by this fucking catastrophe feature. I disabled the Vista search function (searchindexer.exe) on the third day after I discovered it was grinding away on my raid array for 10 hours (indexing I assume) constantly spiking I/O usage.

Visual Stuff: It's cool, I'll give them that.

The only real benefit for the *average* user is the security. Considering how many computers on the net are zombies, I guess that isn't such a bad thing

Anyhoo, if anyone has the installation media for Vista Ultimate 32 I'd appreciate it if you can rip an ISO for me.

[Voyager]

What kind of chip does it use for sound? creative,cirrus logic? Or is it like a texas instrument or ibm kinda of thing..I know nothing about that kind of equipment..

I'm not sure, but it may be proprietary. They are the biggest manufacturer of computer-based recording equipment, and have become the industry standard. The unit I own only runs about $2,500.00. They have systems available that cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for big recording studios.

[Journey69]

What kind of chip does it use for sound? creative,cirrus logic? Or is it like a texas instrument or ibm kinda of thing..I know nothing about that kind of equipment..

I'm not sure, but it may be proprietary. They are the biggest manufacturer of computer-based recording equipment, and have become the industry standard. The unit I own only runs about $2,500.00. They have systems available that cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for big recording studios.

Wow..do you have a band? Or do you do cd recordings? Why do you need such expensive equipment?

[Voyager]

Wow..do you have a band? Or do you do cd recordings?

Yes and yes.

[Journey69]

Wow..do you have a band? Or do you do cd recordings?

Yes and yes.

Cool.. Sounds very interesting...

[Rip Rokken]

My Digidesign DIGI003 with 24-track Pro Tools software comes with its own sound card and connects via firewire:

Wow -- I believe that's exactly what my friend (who is actually my boss, too) has! He runs his gear off a huge Mac tower. Says all his equipment and software in there set him back about 10G. He also has a software app called "Reason" that he says is the hot thing these days... claims it can do anything and everything, but he didn't know enough about it yet to show me much beyond the built in demo songs.