DarkFox
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Re:EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB a bit of overclocking help? - 2008/06/25 03:16
I don't care much for the 3D GUI, I just like the glassy theme cause it just looks nicer than boring blue or silver. As for DirectX 10, it will depend on the game. World in Conflict shows a noticable difference when you enable one DirectX 10 only visual feature, but it is not like a night and day difference, and like every game takes a performance hit with DirectX 10. Crysis requires you to look for differences, and the performance hit is just not worth the incredibly small image quality difference. You just need to use the ".cfg" hack to get very high in DirectX 9.0c. Googling will lead you to the method for this in no time. You can go with Windows XP now until you need to upgrade to Vista.
Vista doesn't offer alot over XP unless you run Folding@Home, especially the GPU clients. It has slightly better load balancing with dual and quad core CPU's, but nothing significant enough to advertise on the box about. It will come down to either taste or necessity, right now it's taste for most people. The DirectX 9.0c performance difference between XP and Vista is generally negligible now, although XP is still faster in most cases, but no Windows OS has been faster than its predecessor, so that is no real surprise. Personally, I'd go with Vista, but that's because I've already been using it for a while and I like it, but it was a bit of a pain to get used to the new interface in the control panel. With a Phenom and 4GB memory, it is not so much of an easy decision between the two OS's on a purely performance level.
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PNY 8800GT PCIe 512MB - Rev 04
