Vista brings a whole new ball game to the Windows crowd, will your system be able to handle it? Is it strong enough, inteligent enough, juiced-up enough or quite simply good enough to stand against this new generation of operating systems? Well find out with the
Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor (currently Beta - Caused a BSoD while I was writing this!)
With all the options selected (so its checking for Windows Vista Ultimate) I found my main desktop (summary specs below) are (surprise!) adequate, however it didnt detect my HD Tuner (
DViCo HDTuner) and didnt like the drivers for my HP Printer (which work on Vista builds now!), granted my main box is grunty I am running an older (but DX9 compatible) gfx card and quite an old sound card... anyhow see what your machine racks up.
System Summary
- CPU: Intel 3.8Ghz (ES) [ Waiting for Conroe to move over to DC! ]
- Motherboard: ASUS P5WD2-Premium
- RAM: 2x 1GB Corsair 8000UL DDR-II = 2Gb Total
- Hard Disk 1: 2x Western Digital Raptor 150Gb (SATA) RAID 0 [ Not Clear Cover ]
- Hard Disk 2: 2x Western Digital WD5000YS 500Gig SATA II (RAID 0)
- Video: Sapphire X850XT PE (Before the current Generation of 1xxx Series!)
- Audio: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum (not ZS, model before that)
Everyone should try and get a copy of Beta 2 (soon!) and try it on their machines to see how it will be running on your current setup, with the various builds I'm using at startup (with quite a bit of tweaking) I've got ~500Mb of memory already allocated to Vista. This means we're looking at an "atleast" 1Gb limit for most average users (which isnt that bad considering how far we've come)< My plan is to move over to 64Bit fulltime with atleast 4Gb of system memory to make things work nicely once Vista RTMs.