My number one reason for installing vista is the Media Center Application. I haven't played games a lot lately so I'm not too concerned about gaming performance. Another reason is the ease of RAID installation. Apparently you no longer need a floppy drive or anything. It will just automatically detect or something. <- This is my main question. What do I need to know about vista raid before I do a Raid 0 stripping setup? Will the videos and music on my 320gb storage HD transfer? Will BF2142/Counter Strike: Source install on Vista? I have an AMD 64 cpu. Should I use 64bit or 32? <- Or should I pick the one with better drivers and re-install when everything is a little less buggy. Is there a way to transfer my Operating system onto my Storage HD so that I can easily Transfer it back onto one of my raptors should I decide I don't like Vista? When I set up Vista on my 2x74gb raptors in raid 0 can I partition it into 2 74gb Partitions so that I can install Windows xp onto one half of my raid setup? <- No I do not need all 130gb's for either operating system.
Like I said in my post It's one of my reasons for upgrading. I bought the raptors for raid specifically. Not so I'd have two extra hot drives in my case. I just don't see a problem doing a partition? I'm just wondering if there is one.
btw, vista has a lot of time wasting security.. if u didnt know.. its otherwise very good. and yes ur games will install on vista however, depending on ur specs, they will run slow.. (vista is slow on a slow comp)
also i found that 64bit(XP) didnt have a lot of support for 32 bit apps.. eg zonealarm.. im not sure if vista is much better.. it also depends if the software supports 64bit as well.. good luck..
System 3200 AMD 64 939 7900GTX 1 GB ram Asus Micro ATX 2 74gb Raptors 1 320gb HD Gonna Upgrade to dual core Maybe 2gb's ram Maybe 8800GTX
