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Re: Andrew's Latest Gossip Rumor- Prices for Windows Vista and features!

You know, if memory sticks are possible, might it be possible to dedicate a few gigs of your hardrive to ram use? Now that would be a feature.

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Re: Andrew's Latest Gossip Rumor- Prices for Windows Vista and features!

Yeah, the harddrive RAM has been around forever. It's called virtual memory, and it's only like 5% of the speed of low end RAM.

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Re: Andrew's Latest Gossip Rumor- Prices for Windows Vista and features!

What does Vista offer gamers? I havet kept myself upto date with it :S

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Re: Andrew's Latest Gossip Rumor- Prices for Windows Vista and features!

Ramseus wrote:

Yeah, the harddrive RAM has been around forever. It's called virtual memory, and it's only like 5% of the speed of low end RAM.

Wo. That I did not know. I've acttualy got 2 hard drives, one with an extra 114 gigs I doubt I'll use for awhile. Would it make a noticeable difference?

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Re: Andrew's Latest Gossip Rumor- Prices for Windows Vista and features!

Virtual memory is only for when you run out of RAM. If you've ever been doing some really memory intensive stuff on your computer and it started to run reallllyyyy ssslllooowwwwlllyy, like if it takes 3 seconds to draw an explorer window, then your computer is pulling on the virtual memory. No, don't use your extra harddrive for it because A) you'll likely never use it, and B) if you do you'll wish that you had more ram.

Vader, DX10 is the greatest thing Vista can offer gamers. You won't be able to use the new blazingly fast DX10 video cards without DX10.

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Re: Andrew's Latest Gossip Rumor- Prices for Windows Vista and features!

Thanks buddy, you may have just prevented a catostrophe. Heres another question. If I get a geforce 6800, thats built for direct x 9, correct? Will I be able to make use of Direct x10?

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Re: Andrew's Latest Gossip Rumor- Prices for Windows Vista and features!

I'm about 99.99999999% sure that the 360 thing is not true for a variety of reasons, one being that the 360 architecture is PowerPC based - and will not run well on x86 architecture-based CPUs such as the Pentium 4, Pentium D, AthlonX2, Athlon64, etc. 

The DVD drive thing is not an issue... Xbox 360 discs are dual-layer DVDs just like the average movie DVD.  They just require specific on-chip firmware to decode their copy protection (which I'm guessing people are thinking Microsoft would then do in software?)  I really doubt microsoft will risk losing sales of 360s with a strategy like this - why buy a 360 when you can get a full PC for a few hundred more?

Virtual memory is just that, virtual.  It's basically pre-allocated space on your hard drive that your memory (RAM) will read from when page faults occur (the requested data isn't in RAM)...  I would go into the whole process of explaining it, but that will bring back bad memories from my Operating Systems design class lol..

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