Windows 7

[Death-knell]

Frith mind if I ask how much it set you back. I am looking at getting a new one soonish and just wonder how much i need to start puting back for and how much I want to save how fast and such. I have not gone out pricing anything yet.

Well if you can swing it I'd go Core i7. The 920 processor is around $229 and the motherboard is $189 and up but you can put together a powerful system pretty reasonably.

[Frith-Rae]

Frith mind if I ask how much it set you back. I am looking at getting a new one soonish and just wonder how much i need to start puting back for and how much I want to save how fast and such. I have not gone out pricing anything yet.

Well with an entirely new case (went from mid to full tower) and basically upgrading/replacing everything except the dvd-rom - it was about 1300ish I think at the end, after taxes and S&H and all.

[Scarn_de_Diabolic]

jsut a quick note: it should be noted that a 32-bit operating system cannot make use of any more than 3 Gigabytes of RAM.

Vista-32 will show however much you have installed as if it were available for use (contrary to XP, which will only show how much -usable- RAM you have) but only a 64-bit OS can make use of more than 3 Gigs.

Thats not entirely true. If your bios supports memory Hole remapping you can get the OS to see the extra ram. I've done it with XP SP3.

[Spirit]

Thats not entirely true. If your bios supports memory Hole remapping you can get the OS to see the extra ram. I've done it with XP SP3.

I would hope that any modern pc shipping with over 3gb ram would have a bios supporting such a technique. My copy of XP shows 3.25gb however...

Rakku

[Death-knell]

Well all I know is 32bit see's just over 3gig of ram where 64bit shows it all up to what the board can supoort. Didn't hear that change for Win 7 either.