Windows vista or xp the final answer please

Hello,

I have a compaw SR2030nx which is not an extremely fast gaming processor, athlon 64 3.4Ghz. 2 gigs of ram, radeon HD4850. on xp it runs all games new and old at max 1680x1050 with the bells and whistles.

I just bought a new western digital eads green 1.5TB harddrive which unfortunately is not very compatible with xp, you can realign using a software program which I could do. My question is please answer once and for all, obviously xp is best for games, but would I lose a lot of I upgraded to vista or windows 7? I can only read so many forums about which is better xp or vista or 7. I know xp is the best but how much performance would I actually lose. If it is just a little and I can still run my games at max then no worries.

please help me decide as this new hard drive runs better in vista or windows 7.

My 7 runs games better than vista,at a higher res and fps

Future proof your PC with Vista.

aford10, you're correct on that one, but Vista seems to have more of a future than XP. What I should of said is most newer games will be running on DirectX10 and soon 11. Two/three years down the line one will not be able to play the newer games on the old XP system having DirectX9c. Sorry for the wording...cheers

Yep
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