Quote Originally Posted by 'keyclone',index.php?page=Thread&postID=206499#pos t206499
if you go to vista64, you'll be able to put more memory on your box. i've got 8gb on my vista64 quad core box... and loving it.

btw, i was talking with someone today that was tired of 'playing games' with performance issues and took advice i gave him about 2 months ago. he upgraded to the i7 and got 12g of memory (i didn't suggest that much, but it wasn't much more so he went for it). he called today to tell me how thrilled he has been with his new machine. he's got it running 4 screens (2x 22" portrait mode, 1x 30" and 1x 36") and 5-boxing on it, no problem. he says all the screen are extremely smooth (i'm not sure of the video card... it has 4 dvi outputs, 2g of memory and i believe its an nvidia board)

btw, if you do get the quad or i7 chip, make sure to set your cpu affinity correctly and set the maxfpsbk and maxfps fields for each command
i7 is not for gamers right now. You can get the same performance with a cheaper quad or a E8400. I've done some tests with a friend whose got a i7 and he's pissed off because I have a faster, more stable system than he does. I'm running my E8400 @ almost 4.24ghz while his is at around 4.1ghz. He's only got 4gb of RAM opposed to my 12gb of RAM as well. Let me see if I can find that article on how i7's suck for gaming.

@ OP: I had no issues with 5x WoW copies, keyclone, or anything else on Vista Ultimate x64. Runs perfectly and it's actually just as fast as XP, but with DX10 and more stable I think. That is, after you trim the services, etc down.

Needless to say Windows 7 x64 is going to be awesome. I'm running it on a quad boot right now and have had no issues with anything from this site to multibox on. I even F@H while playing graphic intensive games using the GPU2 client.