Vista 32 or Windows 7

[Nidy]

Hello Everyone,

I have a Dell 630i running an e8400. The set up has Vista 32, 4 gigs of ram and a 570 GTX. I am trying to decide whether or not to upgrade the pc a bit or buy a new one. From reading the forums it seems the e8400 still has quite a bit of life in it so I am wondering if I would see a performance increase in gaming were i simply to upgrade to Windows 7 64 at which time I could upgrade my memory to 8 gig. Is this a worthwhile option? The computer runs DDR2 pc2 8500 max in the motherboard.

Thank you for your input, its much appreciated.

 

[silverliquicity]

unless your having issues with vista, there's no need to upgrade, you have enough ram atm the satisfy vista.

 

[geofelt]

For gaming performance, I think not. No game I know of uses more than 2 or possibly 3gb.

That said, I do like windows 7, and 8gb will allow the os to keep more code in ram for faster launch.

DDR2 ram is relatively expensive, so I might not want to up that.

Consider skipping a couple of generations and research an ivy bridge build. Your GTX570 is still a great card.

 

[das_stig]

Not too expensive, 2x2Gb PC2-8500 kit can be found for £30+ and a move to Win7 x64 would be a better step. even without the memory upgrade.

 

[eggbrook]

I would always suggest Windows 7 over Vista, I used vista for a few years and have used Windows 7 since release. It is a great operating system and is more responsive and easy to use than Vista ever was