If this is the way you're going to go, then make certain you have the latest drivers for Win 7 64 bit.I did not uninstall the nvidia driver. i will get driver sweeper and take both drivers off and do a clean install. cant wait to get off work and try this out.
I dont think i will be trying it on win xp since u guys say there wont be a performance change and i have 6 gigs of ram now. will be putting the 64 bit version of win 7.
Also, i am thinking of installing directx10 instead of the directx11 i have. When i did some reading on directx11 it mentioned it has new tesselation and stuff like that which i believe would be more stressful on the cpu. Maybe thats why some1 suggested xp performs better on older computers? Perhaps with a clean install and directx10 my cpu would be up to the task.
If this is the way you're going to go, then make certain you have the latest drivers for Win 7 64 bit.
IDK if the latest ATI drivers are "one size fits all", so to speak. No wait, Jared's is jewelry, right?
XP does fine with at least dual core CPUs, you will see a dual CPU box in "Task Manager" "Performance Tab". I don't own any quads, so I won't speak to that. The only problem with multi-core CPUs, was with certain AMD processors, and there is a special XP update to deal with it. That said, it's the software that needs to be optimized for multiple threads.Also, does windows xp take advantage of multiple cores processors since its newer technology?
I want to see how the driver issue resolves itself, before treading on "theoretical" ground.Hypothentically speaking, (im not going to do this) if i was to underclock my video card, would it work better with my cpu?
OK. you keep asking more questions, which is cool, but it would improve the flow of the thread, if you would report on the results of any work you have done with the video card's driver's, just so we'd know, rather than having to read between the lines, or surmise, if you will.Seems like no matter what I do the cpu is going to bottleneck the card just like many have suggested. I am now in the market for a different card. Thank you all for your help
OK. you keep asking more questions, which is cool, but it would improve the flow of the thread, if you would report on the results of any work you have done with the video card's driver's, just so we'd know, rather than having to read between the lines, or surmise, if you will.
regardless of what video card I have the cpu will be the bottleneck.
Yes.In regards to the high def TV, thank you for the input. Just to clarify, the 512mb would be more than adequate?