That’s nonsense, so your idea is that a 64-bit system load is half the 64-bit system load because 64 = 32 x 2 ?

That’s just wrong. WRONG.

That’s also an amazing statement, coming from someone who just offended another being.

I wonder who the ignorant bastard is.

Vista just isn’t good when it comes to crappy PCs, even for the high-end ones too. I mean, who would sacrifice performance just to say “Hai, I haz vista!” and “shiny” “eye-candy”.

Above 4GB on 32-bit is a waste of money. on most modern system with high end GPU cards above 3GB system RAM is a waste of money.

CPU should have as fast a FSB as possible with as large a L2C as possible.

Go for chip speed over cores for obvious reasons.

Fast hard drives matter for loads only unless you are paging, if you are paging something needs fixing above. If you hung up on disk speed go for 10,000RPM in a RAID0 config. choose disks with large caches to maximise soft reads.

64-bit may or may not boost performance on 32-bit applications. it varies from program to program. some 32-bit apps do run better in native 32-bit operating systems than in virtual 32-bit environments.

get as fast a GPU as possible with as much RAM as possible. crossfire may or may not make a huge difference, but should always increase frame rates to some degree.

Monitor size matters. get high frame rate on 19″ is a lot easier than getting the same frame rate on 30″. resolution and colour depth make a huge difference.

I used to run a dual nVidia SLI setup a couple of years ago. I remember on the mainboard I had a little plastic clip holding the pcb which enabled you to use normal/sli… the plastic clip kept coming loose (until I superglued it)… a few times the PCB came loose during play… all it did was scramble one half of the screen and the top half was still running…

Haha..

Pretty lucky not to damage anything.

I have used XP (sp3) flawlessly on WoW for many years and any crashes or problems have always been due to spyware/bot or hardware issues and not the OS.

I recently purchased an extra 2gb of DDR800 ram (OCZ) not knowing of the contraints of the XP system. It only shows 3.25db ram and is highly unstable. The new ram is itentical to the other 2gb I already had. I have tried the system with both 2g of the new and 2g of the original ram and it runs fine with either and after browsing the net… I did find many posts about instability with 4gb in XP.

My system currently is:

AW9D-MAX (latest bios for 1333fsb)
Intel E6600 2.4gb Dual Core Processor
4gb OCZ Platinum Dual Channel DDR800 RAM (4×1gb)
nVidia 8800 320mb GTSOC2
Audigy2 sound (built in is newer but really crap in comparison to even this old soundblaster card)
1x 75gb WD Raptor 10000rpm SATA
2x 36gb WD Raptor 10000rpm SATA

I’m hoping that the 4gb RAM… even thought its dual channel (not the new quad channel) will work well in 4×1 configuration.

As a reply to FPS posts above… take into account WHERE you are in WoW before you post astounding FSP results because the original azeroth zone is fast, burning crusade slower and northrend even slower..

With my current setup I push over 130fps even in Stormwind (not in the bank/AH area of course) and over 130fps in Elwynn Forest.
As soon as I go to Shattrath/Outland zones it drops to 90fps.
It drops again to between 40fps and 70fps for northrend depending on where I am.

I have had instances of my machine freezing completely due to the spell graphics being turned up and mass AE damage being done… ie in Naxxramas or in particular doing the Leeeeeeroy achievement.

Do you have a clue what you are on about?

Vertical Sync, only synchronises your framerate to your monitors refresh rate, to stop screen tearing. If theyre experiencing low fps, disabling vsync won’t do shit all… unless their monitor is actually at 40hz and less which is EXTREMELY unlikely.

VSync off = Max framerate if your pc is capable of going over the refresh limit…

Turn it on to limit it.

Simples.