Vista or XP for gaming?

[Wasabicannon]

I have been searching the internet all day trying to get some opinions on this topic.

As of now I have a 32 bit XP OS.
I am about to get a 64 bit XP and Vista disk.

I just do not know which one would be better for gaming.
Right now I have a GeForce GTX 260 and 4GB Oze RAM with a 1.5TB
As far as I know 64 bit XP can see 4GB RAM max and 64 bit Vista can see 8GB of RAM max.

[RockmasteR]

You have good amount of RAM and a very good Dx10 card, I'll say go for Vista but maybe Vista 64 is better cause you have 4 gig RAM

[koala]

From http://www.geek.com/articles/games/s...-bit-20090318/

Right now we are at a strange place in the history of operating systems. Both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems are available to us, and it’s not always clear which is the best way to go.

But is 64-bit the right choice? The answer is looking like, “not always”.

Overall, it’s pretty sad to see how little the change affects today’s games. When testing a 32-bit setup with 3GB of RAM against a 64-bit one with 3GB and then 6GB we frequently see changes of just a frame-per-second or two. Sometimes the 32-bit system even beat the 64-bit one.

To summarize, there isn’t major advantage to having a 64-bit gaming rig at the moment –for gaming– but there doesn’t seem to be any major disadvantages either. Given the cheap cost of memory and the changes on the horizon, Tom’s says 64-bit is the way to go.

[Wasabicannon]

Originally Posted by RockmasteR

You have good amount of RAM and a very good Dx10 card, I'll say go for Vista but maybe Vista 64 is better cause you have 4 gig RAM

Originally Posted by koala

From http://www.geek.com/articles/games/s...-bit-20090318/

Thank you very much for your support.

Since I am in college I can get any OS for free through the MSDN
I might as well just get XP and Vista and dual boot.
Or would dual booting give me any issues?

[RockmasteR]

it's OK but be sure to put each OS on different partitions and it's preferable on different Hard drives
if you put XP on C: put Vista on D:

[Wasabicannon]

Originally Posted by RockmasteR

it's OK but be sure to put each OS on different partitions and it's preferable on different Hard drives
if you put XP on C: put Vista on D:

Ok well I am planning on buying another 1.5TB in the future and right now I have 2 64bit XP and 2 64bit Vista codes.
Should I be putting Vista on my current HDD then put the 64bit XP on my new HDD that I should be getting in 2 - 3 months.

[RockmasteR]

I don't know why you need anothe 2.5 TB
isn't 1.5 TB good enough????
I mean you can download the hole Youtube on that thing!! (kidding) LOL!!
but really 1.5 TB is more than enough only if you do some movie editing and every movie takes space like 30 to 40 GB!

[Wasabicannon]

Originally Posted by RockmasteR

I don't know why you need anothe 2.5 TB
isn't 1.5 TB good enough????
I mean you can download the hole Youtube on that thing!! (kidding) LOL!!
but really 1.5 TB is more than enough only if you do some movie editing and every movie takes space like 30 to 40 GB!

Since I was told that it is best to dual boot from 2 harddrives so I was thinking about just getting another 1.5TB for that.