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Originally Posted by llama64
If you don't have it already, upgrade to Vista. Otherwise that 4GB of ram will go to waste.
And I'd consider another audio card. Unless you are doing high end audio processing work (not games), go with a cheaper Audigy SE 7.1. It's cheaper, does everything a game needs it to do and with much more stable drivers then the X-Fi. If you're keen at getting a high end audio card, look into alternatives other then Creative. The hardware Creative makes is pretty good, but they can't employ decent driver software developers at all.
Otherwise, /drool
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i already have an Audigy 2 that i've had for years but it seems to be going a bit wonky lately. i'm mainly getting the X-Fi for gaming as it does provide some nice benefits there, it's gotten quite good reviews on gaming sites
and since Vista's performance with games is still pretty terrible compared to XP i have no plans to upgrade to that just yet. maybe with a couple of service packs it might get better but even with XP only recognizing 3.25gb of my ram it'll still perform better (don't quite know about XP 64-bit though, it seems to be forgotten)
as for cooling i'm also gonna pick up one of
these. thanks for the feedback