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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
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 |
The difference between Vista and XP are basically non-existent in gaming performance.
Just take a look at these almost 1-year old benchmarks which show minimal difference between Vista and XP
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...te/default.asp
Or these benchmarks that are more recent.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2302495,00.asp
Also remember the majority of hardware review sites are doing their testing and benchmarking on Vista.